Today I want to write about a very interesting idea in philosophy that gets misunderstood a lot, so to do my guy Ludwig Wittgenstein some justice, here's my take on his notion of Family resemblances.
Part 1: The Quest of
Philosophy
People have to make judgements to survive. 'This' is good, 'that' is bad. 'This' sounds reasonable, 'that' sounds idiotic. This - theoretical physics - is science, that - astrology - is not. This - Michelangelo's David - is art, that - my MS Paint drawing - is not.
But, those claims beg the question: what is good? What is science? What is art?
Ideally, we would like to find one condition, the essence of being good, or of being a science, or art. That's basically what Socrates tried to do when he went around asking questions like: "what is justice?"; "what is good?"; "what is duty?", …
