To those that like to cite Wittgenstein to justify their moral relativism. You misinterpret Wittgenstein.
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Wittgenstein didn't believe that different cultures lead to different conclusions of truth. He wanted us to reconcile our private lives with our public lives out of philosophical honesty. He believed that there was a dialogue that can only happen when we put away the confusion of language, and speak in plain terms. "There are indeed dull monists (like the one in the joke I tell) who can see nothing more in reality than a homogeneous mass; but these folks enrich their monism by envisaging the mind as a wondrous and iridescent thing; that is precisely what Wittgenstein is against."<br><br>He gets ignored despite the clarity of his teaching because he was unflinching in his criticism of how modernity has eroded the quality of our attunement to our human lives. It is a critical teaching that is utterly plain in On Certainty. The purpose of Wittgenstein's philosophy was to make plain the purposes of language, but the philosophy he left us is most often used to obscure these purposes.
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