the problems of philosophy...

scored the legacy of the ancient world  at Liberty Books in Upper Hutt a month ago and this week I found one of Berties Masterpieces from 1912 and a complete works of Plato.
When I did Phil at Vic I was in a terrible hurry and basically skipped over a lot of stuff in my eagerness to swallow everything.
Now I have the time to revisit the whole canon at leisure.
Number the premises and take notes.
hehehehehehehehehe.
It helps to pass the time.
But and it is a big but.
Wittgenstein was wrong when he claimed that philosophy is therapeutic.
The only way to truly know yourself is to study Sigmund Freud.
Those who cleave to Wittgensteins dictum are in denial and deliberately avoiding knowing themselves.
He had psychological problems of his own and illustrated by his architectural staircase designs that allowed people to look up womens dresses!
Philosophers are usually ineffectual people and desirous of appearing to know everything but their seemingly blanket denial of Freud is a deliberate attempt to hide themselves from themselves and everyone else.
Nevertheless as Alfred North Whitehead said the whole of philosophy is merely a footnote to Plato and the study of his work will repay the student thousandfolds.
and Guiseppe Peano ,