Is the bar really getting higher in philosophy and natural sciences?

>>2196202
For the first part of your question, yes. Consider mathematics. Middle and high school students learn what was at the front of the field hundreds/thousands of years ago. What's actually being researched in mathematics is of course far more complex.

>>2196202
There is no such thing as a good philosopher, even Wittgenstein admitted he couldn't understand his most famous work, the Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus.

He's just adored for his eccentricity and personal qualities. Philosophy is just intellectual wanking and sophistry.

The guy you posted ended Philosophy. It's done.

>>2196261
That isn't his most famous work, Philosophical Investigations is.

>>2196266
Oh OK, that was published after his death though - I wonder what he would say about it if he had some time to revisit it.

>>2196202

Nope. New philosophy builds on a larger body of work- but that's it. Doesn't mean you have to be smarter. The primary limiting factor is the amount of work a particular person can do in a lifetime- not that person's intelligence. Consider how much time professors spend teaching, preparing lectures and grading students' papers- on top of personal writing and research- they also do peer review for academic journals, give talks about their work at conferences around the country and world.

Advancing academic fields is mostly a matter of legwork- intelligence plays a part but it's not the biggest part. You shouldn't be surprised at how much of new publication is based on submitting and resubmitting ideas after feedback- rather than one brilliant person going at it alone. It's a community process that grows these ideas that came from a small seed introduced by a single person or small group of people.

>>2196261
T. Brainlet who doesn't understand philosophy

It seems obvious that new discoveries get harder and harder to make, otherwise they would have been made.

Was Wittgenstein the last genius in philosophy?

what's so good about wittgenstein seems like he was wrong all his life and then someone else corrected his ideas and published them in his name after wittgenstein died

>>2196277
He decided to spend the whole remainder if his life polishing up that one book.