1. Wittgenstein, Ludwig. Philosophical Investigations
. tr. G.E.M. Anscombe. Englewood Cliffs: Prentice, 1953.
2. Ibid., p.8.
3. Diels, H. Ancilla to the Pre-Socratic Philosophers: A
Complete Translation of the Fragments in Dielsí ëFragmente der
Vorsokratiker, trans. Kathleen Freeman, Cambridge: Harvard UP,
1966, p. 19.
4. Heidegger, Martin. Basic Questions of Philosophy: Selected
"Problems" of "Logic," trans. Richard Rojcewicz and Andre Schuwer, Bloomington:
Indiana UP, 1994, p.10.
5. In terms of a value system like ìhuman rightsî
the logic of Aristotle has caused more problems than it has easily solved.
Catharine MacKinnon notes ("Crimes of War, Crimes of Peace," On Human Rights:
Oxford Amnesty Lectures 1993, ed. Stephen Shute and Susan Hurley, New
York: Basic Books, 1993, p.95) "Women were not citizens in Greek democracy;
they were wives, slaves, prostitutes. In this setting, Aristotle formulated
his equality [truth] principle as treating likes alike and unlikes unalike--a
concept fundamentally unquestioned since, in the international human rights
context." We can see here how the effective definition of truth as
fitting into a programmed system of logic induces not only inequality but
rape, terror, mutilation, dismemberment, and death. MacKinnon here
speaks of the atrocities committed against Muslims and Croatian by Serbian
troops.
6. Basis Questions, p.15-6.
7. Ibid., p.16.
8. Investigations, p.88-9, s.243.
9. Ibid., p.89, s.244.
10. Ibid., p.89, s.245.
11. Heidegger, Martin, Basic Concepts, trans. Gary Aylesworth,
Bloomington: Indiana UP, 1994, p.22-3.
12. Ibid., p.24-5.
13. Ibid., p.25.
14. Ibid., p.28-30.
15. Investigations, p.94, s.269.