“Selfless solipsism” = Wittgensteinian nondualism in Canfield
Written on August 19, 2007
I want to make note of the paradoxical notion of “selfless solipsism” from John V. Canfield’s book ‘The Looking-Glass Self’ (more on the book in yesterday’s post) since I have spent some years looking into various forms of nondualism (especially Advaita Vedanta).
So Canfield quotes Wittgenstein: “Here we see that solipsism strictly carried out coincides with pure realism. The I in solipsism shrinks to an extensionless point and there remains the reality coordinated with it.” (The Looking Glass Self, p. 46)
