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	• Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus (Routledge Classics) Ludwig Wittgenstein Routledge, 2001 - 128 pages average customer review:based on 43 reviews view larger image
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highly recommended

Tractatus is about symbolism. It is about coming to terms with the way in which we communicate the reality of the world we experience. So much of Tractatus is concerend with the way in which we think...pictorially.

Tractatus was written shortly after World War I as a statement of logical positivism.

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Climbing the ladder: from ~p to a religious mysticism.

Wittgenstein, writing from the front during the first World War, produced a terse, complicated, and confusing philosophical treatise concerning metaphysics and mysticism. The Tractatus began as a solution to problems both Russell and Frege had experienced in their attempt to locate the foundations of logic and mathematics. Wittgenstein solved their problems by invoking an epistemological-linguistic distinction between saying and showing. From this distinction, as well as his digestion of both Schopenhauer and Tolstoy, Wittgenstein offers a narrative which elucidates God and the meaning of life. A "spiritual solipsism" figures prominently in this narrative, the self being identified, in part, as God. And mystical experience (sub specie aeternitatus) being a necessary condition of experience, available to all.

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A classic with contemporary relevance

Wittgenstein's first published work. Should be as famous for Russell's misunderstanding of it, made obvious in his introduction, as for it's effect on the positivists and modern philosophical logic. Absolutely essential reading for studying Wittgenstein's later work. The Investigations can be read as a refutation of the Tractatus, and thereby, as a refutation of much of contemporary philosophy of language. While Wittgenstein doesn't help his readers with either references or explanatory preamble, the effort of reading this book will be well rewarded to anybody studying contemporary issues in philosophical logic, philosophy of language or philosophy of science. Whatismore, Wittgenstein's poetic style is a joy to read and many of his aphorisms will come back to you in other studies.

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A classic with contemporary relevance

Wittgenstein's first published work. Should be as famous for Russell's misunderstanding of it, made obvious in his introduction, as for it's effect on the positivists and modern philosophical logic. Absolutely essential reading for studying Wittgenstein's later work. The Investigations can be read as a refutation of the Tractatus, and thereby, as a refutation of much of contemporary philosophy of language. While Wittgenstein doesn't help his readers with either references or explanatory preamble, the effort of reading this book will be well rewarded to anybody studying contemporary issues in philosophical logic, philosophy of language or philosophy of science. Whatismore, Wittgenstein's poetic style is a joy to read and many of his aphorisms will come back to you in other studies.

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