第2巻第5章 テレグラフ・ハウス時代末期(承前)
オックスフォード大学で連続講義をするよう依頼を受けたので,私は「言語と事実」をテーマとして選んだ。その連続講義(の内容)が,1940年に『意味と真理の探求』(An Inquiry into Meaning and Truth, 1940)という表題で出版された本の最初の草稿であった。 私たちは,オクスフォードの近くのキドリントンに(注:1937年に)家を購入して,そこに約1年間住んだ。けれどもそこでは,オクスフォード在住の女性が一人訪ねてきてくれただけだった。私たちは,尊敬されるような存在ではなかった。後にケンブリッジでもこれと同様の経験(注:尊敬されない存在となること)をもった。この点(注:訪問者は多数いること)においては,古くからの'学問の府'(中心地)は,他の地域とは違っていることがわかった。 この後に34通の書簡集が続くが,適宜邦訳することにして,次章に進むことにしたい。 |
v.2,chap.5: Later Years of Telegraph House After I had finished Power, I found my thoughts turning again to theoretical philosophy. During my time in prison in 1918, I had become interested in the problems connected with meaning, which in earlier days I had completely ignored. I wrote something on these problems in The Analysis of Mind and in various articles written at about the same time. But there was a great deal more to say. The logical positivists, with whose general outlook I had a large measure of agreement, seemed to me on some points to be falling into errors which would lead away from empiricism into a new scholasticism. They seemed inclined to treat the realm of language as if it were self-subsistent, and not in need of any relation to non-linguistic occurrences. Being invited to give a course of lectures at Oxford, I chose as my subject "Words and Facts." The lectures were the first draft of the book published in 1940 under the title An Inquiry into Meaning and Truth. We bought a house at Kidlington, near Oxford, and lived there for about a year, but only one Oxford lady called. We were not respectable. We had later a similar experience in Cambridge. In this respect I have found these ancient seats of learning unique. |