use as philosophy

This chapter discussed Wittgenstein's architecture. Wittgenstein built only one house, the haus Wittgenstein in Vienna, which justifies talking about this aspect of his life. One reason is that it identifies Wittgenstein as an architect; the other thing that concerns us is the unusual situation of a philosopher building a house. There is an amazing interrelationship between Wittgenstein's philosophy and his building. Wittgenstein sees logical thought as a copy of causality in the world process and copies each from the other. The chapter discusses the concept of use, which comes from a different direction from Plato's “idea” or Aristotle's “entelechy”. For Wittgenstein, the concept of “use” includes not just making, but also what is made, learned, passed on. The only thing other than philosophy that Wittgenstein mentions as something that has taught him a particular view of things and what they should achieve is architecture.