{"id":7268,"date":"2020-12-18T11:13:23","date_gmt":"2020-12-18T10:13:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stolb01web.ddns.net\/wordpress\/?p=7268"},"modified":"2020-12-30T14:32:50","modified_gmt":"2020-12-30T13:32:50","slug":"great-lives","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stolb01web.ddns.net\/wordpress\/?p=7268","title":{"rendered":"Great Lives"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/programmes\/b006qxsb\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">&#8220;Great Lives&#8221; on <em>BBC Radio 4<\/em> <\/a>is a long favourite programme, though these days I often miss the scheduled broadcast and listen to it as a podcast. It doesn&#8217;t often disappoint, and this concerning Frank Ramsey was no exception.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-spotify wp-block-embed-spotify wp-embed-aspect-21-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Spotify Embed: David Spiegelhalter on Frank Ramsey\" width=\"100%\" height=\"232\" allowtransparency=\"true\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"encrypted-media\" src=\"https:\/\/open.spotify.com\/embed-podcast\/episode\/5swoPXwVlOnL1KaHg7gyf5?si=-X5X1MtxRmqWOxHUifc9Vg\"><\/iframe>\n<\/div><figcaption>&#8220;Great Lives&#8221;  BBC Radio 4 &#8211; Frank Ramsey<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Matthew Parris, the presenter, was momentarily taken aback with <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/programmes\/b006qxsb\" target=\"_blank\">David Spiegelhalter&#8217;s nomination<\/a>; admitting to not having heard of Ramsey. I wouldn&#8217;t like to be the one to raise my eyebrows, for only in recent times has this short, brilliant life <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/stolb01web.ddns.net\/wordpress\/?page_id=2651\/&amp;page=5\/#ramsay\" target=\"_blank\">come to my attention<\/a>, but Parris has encountered an associated other, Ludwig Wittgenstein, in both his own academic life at Cambridge; as an insurmountable hurdle, he says, and <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/programmes\/b006qxsb\" target=\"_blank\">amongst previous &#8220;great lives&#8221;<\/a>.  And, I would have thought, any investigation into Wittgenstein&#8217;s life would have somehow thrown up Ramsey.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Re-listening to that 2011 broadcast, Ramsey is indeed not mentioned, but I guess in thirty minutes only so much can be said. I am surprised though; for as I understand it, the young Ramsey, took some time out from a heady Viennese sojourn to  act as an emissary of sorts (at the behest of Maynard Keynes amongst others), to visit Wittgenstein in the provinces of Austria in 1923; spent some time with him, gained his trust (not an easy thing!), translated the <em>Tractatus<\/em> into English, and eventually played an important role in finally enticing Wittgenstein back to Cambridge in 1929.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This is by no means meant to be derogatory of either &#8220;Great Lives&#8221; or Matthew Parris, in fact I enjoy the program very much, and along the way I have discovered an extraordinary gallery of people. Granted, some have, to my mind, been grotesque &#8211; like Mussolini (a minor scandal that selection was a few months ago!), and some trivial &#8211; confusing a life to be celebrated with that of celebrity. And, <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/programmes\/m000qjgd\" target=\"_blank\">in this special edition<\/a>, Parris does contemplate the very subjective nature of defining adequately what exactly a &#8220;great life&#8221; is. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">But generally speaking, an enlightening interlude &#8211; whether on radio or as podcast on various platforms &#8211; that may be light on answers, but very often suggests questions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Great Lives&#8221; on BBC Radio 4 is a long favourite programme, though these days I often miss the scheduled broadcast and listen to it as a podcast. It doesn&#8217;t often disappoint, and this concerning Frank Ramsey was no exception. Matthew Parris, the presenter, was momentarily taken aback with David Spiegelhalter&#8217;s nomination; admitting to not having &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/stolb01web.ddns.net\/wordpress\/?p=7268\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Great Lives&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[11,14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7268","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-media","category-podcast"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stolb01web.ddns.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7268","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stolb01web.ddns.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stolb01web.ddns.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stolb01web.ddns.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stolb01web.ddns.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7268"}],"version-history":[{"count":27,"href":"https:\/\/stolb01web.ddns.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7268\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7525,"href":"https:\/\/stolb01web.ddns.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7268\/revisions\/7525"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stolb01web.ddns.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7268"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stolb01web.ddns.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7268"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stolb01web.ddns.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7268"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}