Ludwig Wittgenstein’s Tractatus Logio-Philosophicus is an ambitious reconsideration of what philosophy is and what it can accomplish. A previous item on First Philosophy celebrates this singular work as a formal poetic experiment. Here Wittgenstein biographer, Ray Monk, reviews the conditions that spawned it.
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Ludwig Wittgenstein‘s Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus is a bold experiment in literary form and expression, in addition to being a monumental work of 20th Century philosophy. For the most part, its influence have been ascribed to the power of its ideas about logic, language, and the world as it can be revealed by philosophy. According to Ed
Philosophy as Poetry – Wittgenstein’s Tractatus Logio-Philosophicus Read More »
These squiggles have a meaning. So do spoken words, road signs, mathematical equations and signal flags. Meaning is something with which we’re intimately familiar – so familiar that, for the most part, we barely register or think about it at all.
My words have meaning, your parrot’s do not. Wittgenstein explains Read More »
Ludwig Wittgenstein, The Blue Book: This small volume conveys a vibrant sense of the life of philosophy. With intellectual honesty reminiscent of Augustine’s Confessions, we see a mind relentlessly unearthing previously unexamined presuppositions, exposing misleading conceptual models that would oversimplify language, and sustaining a self-analytical scrutiny concerning its own inward impulsions to take wrong turns, to
