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Ludwig Wittgenstein (1889–1951)

Autor(a) de Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus

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About the Author

Born in Vienna, Ludwig Josef Johann Wittgenstein was educated at Linz and Berlin University. In 1908 he went to England, registering as a research student in engineering at the University of Manchester. There he studied Bertrand Russell's (see also Vol. 5) Principles of Mathematics by chance and mostrar mais decided to study with Russell at Cambridge University. From 1912 to 1913, he studied under Russell's supervision and began to develop the ideas that crystallized in his Tractatus. With the outbreak of World War I, he returned home and volunteered for the Austrian Army. During his military service, he prepared the book published in 1921 as the Tractatus, first translated into English in 1922 by C. K. Ogden. Wittgenstein emerged as a philosopher whose influence spread from Austria to the English-speaking world. Perhaps the most eminent philosopher during the second half of the twentieth century, Wittgenstein had an early impact on the members of the Vienna Circle, with which he was associated. The logical atomism of the Tractatus, with its claims that propositions of logic and mathematics are tautologous and that the cognitive meaning of other sorts of scientific statements is empirical, became the fundamental source of logical positivism, or logical empiricism. Bertrand Russell adopted it as his position, and A. J. Ayer was to accept and profess it 15 years later. From the end of World War I until 1926, Wittgenstein was a schoolteacher in Austria. In 1929 his interest in philosophy renewed, and he returned to Cambridge, where even G. E. Moore came under his spell. At Cambridge Wittgenstein began a new wave in philosophical analysis distinct from the Tractatus, which had inspired the rise of logical positivism. Whereas the earlier Wittgenstein had concentrated on the formal structures of logic and mathematics, the later Wittgenstein attended to the fluidities of ordinary language. His lectures, remarks, conversations, and letters made lasting imprints on the minds of his most brilliant students, who have long since initiated the unending process of publishing them. During his lifetime Wittgenstein himself never published another book after the Tractatus. However, he was explicit that the work disclosing the methods and topics of his later years be published. This work, Philosophical Investigations (1953), is esteemed to be his most mature expression of his philosophical method and thought. (Bowker Author Biography) mostrar menos
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Obras por Ludwig Wittgenstein

Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus (1921) 4,139 exemplares
Philosophical Investigations (1953) 3,425 exemplares
On Certainty (1969) — Autor — 1,349 exemplares
Culture and Value (1977) 699 exemplares
Remarks on Colour (1978) 408 exemplares
Zettel (1967) 307 exemplares
Notebooks, 1914-1916 (1957) 304 exemplares
Philosophical Grammar (1969) 302 exemplares
Philosophical Remarks (1975) 213 exemplares
Philosophical Occasions, 1912-1951 (1993) 101 exemplares
Remarks on Frazer's Golden Bough (1975) 71 exemplares
Private Notebooks: 1914-1916 (2022) 58 exemplares
Lecture on Ethics (1989) 53 exemplares
The Big Typescript (1983) 49 exemplares
Wörterbuch für Volksschulen (1977) 19 exemplares
Ein Reader. (1996) 19 exemplares
Brieven (2000) 18 exemplares
Diarios, conferencias (2015) 15 exemplares
Kirjoituksia 1929-1938 (1986) 13 exemplares
Wittgenstein (1989) 12 exemplares
青色本 (ちくま学芸文庫) (2001) 11 exemplares
Filosofia (1996) 10 exemplares
Fiches (1971) 8 exemplares
Ludwig Wittgenstein. (1995) — Honoree — 6 exemplares
Wittgenstein 5 exemplares
Philosophische Bemerkungen (1964) 5 exemplares
Movements of Thought (2022) 4 exemplares
Cartas, encuentros, recuerdos. (2009) 4 exemplares
A Wittgenstein Primer (2011) 3 exemplares
Philosophica, numéro 2 (2000) 2 exemplares
Lettere 1911-1951 (2012) 2 exemplares
O Livro Azul (2008) 2 exemplares
Forelæsninger & samtaler (2001) 2 exemplares
Correspondance (Cambridge) (2006) 2 exemplares
Correspondance philosophique (2015) 2 exemplares
Lettres, Rencontres, Souvenirs (2009) 2 exemplares
Über Ludwig Wittgenstein (1968) 2 exemplares
Philosophica, numéro 1 (2000) 1 exemplar
Revue Europe 906, Octobre 2004 : Wittgenstein — Contribuidor — 1 exemplar
Du 586: Weiss 1 exemplar
Wiener Ausgabe (1998) 1 exemplar
Scritti scelti 1 exemplar
O livro castanho (1992) 1 exemplar
Wiener Ausgabe, Vol. 2 (1994) 1 exemplar
Wiener Ausgabe, Vol. 1 (1994) 1 exemplar
Os pensadores 1 exemplar
Isomorfismo 1 exemplar
Dias da prosperidade: contos (1998) 1 exemplar
Cultura e Valor 1 exemplar

Associated Works

Awakenings (1973) — Contribuidor, algumas edições2,444 exemplares
The Age of Analysis: The 20th Century Philosophers (1955) — Contribuidor — 404 exemplares
Ludwig Wittgenstein: A Memoir (1958) — Contribuidor, algumas edições271 exemplares
The Philosopher's Handbook: Essential Readings from Plato to Kant (2000) — Contribuidor — 200 exemplares
The Voices of Wittgenstein: The Vienna Circle (2003)algumas edições18 exemplares
Utopie Eindexamencahier Havo vanaf 2007 (2006) — Contribuidor — 11 exemplares

Etiquetado

Conhecimento Comum

Nome legal
Wittgenstein, Ludwig Josef Johann
Outros nomes
WITTGENSTEIN, Ludwig Josef Johann
WITTGENSTEIN, Ludwig
Data de nascimento
1889-04-26
Data de falecimento
1951-04-29
Localização do túmulo
Ascension Parish Burial Ground, Cambridge, UK
Sexo
male
Nacionalidade
Oostenrijk
UK (1939)
País (no mapa)
Austria
Local de nascimento
Wenen, Wenen, Oostenrijk
Local de falecimento
Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, England, UK
Causa da morte
prostate cancer
Locais de residência
Wenen, Wenen, Oostenrijk
Linz, Oberösterreich, Oostenrijk
Charlottenburg, Berlin, Duitsland
Manchester, Greater Manchester, England, UK
Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, England, UK
Skjolden, Luster, Sogn og Fjordane, Noorwegen (mostrar todos 7)
Trattenbach, Niederösterreich, Oostenrijk
Educação
Staatsoberrealschule (Linz)
Technische Hochschule (Charlottenburg ∙ Berlijn)
College of Technology (Manchester)
Manchester University (Department of Engineering)
University of Cambridge (Logica|Trinity College)
Bundes-Lehrerbildungsanstalt (Kundmanngasse ∙ Wenen) (mostrar todos 7)
University of Cambridge (PhD ∙ Filosofie)
Ocupações
Ingenieur
Onderwijzer
Filosoof
Hoogleraar filosofie (Cambridge)
Relações
Russell, Bertrand (teacher)
Moore, G. E. (teacher)
Anscombe, G. E. M. (student)
Black, Max (student)
Geach, Peter (student)
Malcolm, Norman (student) (mostrar todos 9)
Wright, Georg Henrik von (student)
Engelmann, Paul (friend)
Ambrose, Alice (student)
Organizações
University of Cambridge
Austro-Hungarian Army (WWI)
Prémios e menções honrosas
Band of the Military Service Medal with Swords (1918)
Silver Medal for Valour, First Class (1917)
Military Merit Medal with Swords on the Ribbon (1916)

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Ludwig Wittgenstein, born in Vienna, Austria to a wealthy family, is considered by some to have been the greatest philosopher of the 20th century. He continues to influence philosophical thought in topics as varied as logic and language, perception and intention, ethics and religion, aesthetics and culture. As a soldier in the Austrian army in World War I, he was captured in 1918 and spent the remaining months of the war in a prison camp, where he wrote the notes and drafts of his first book, Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus. It was published in 1921 in German and then translated into English the following year. In the 1930s and 1940s, he conducted seminars at Cambridge University, his alma mater, and wrote his second book, Philosophical Investigations, which was published posthumously. His conversations, lecture notes, and letters, have since been published in several volumes, including Ludwig Wittgenstein and the Vienna Circle, The Blue and Brown Books, and Philosophical Grammar.

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Críticas

No entendí nada (tal y como predijo su autor) pero lo disfruté bastante.
 
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arturovictoriano | 44 outras críticas | Mar 14, 2024 |
Kosuth uses Wittgenstein's critique of language as a basis for examining the concept and functioning of art. Associating art with indirect assertions where meanings cannot be said directly but can only he shown through the structure of its own articulation, Kosuth refers to this as art's self-referentiality and defines art as "a play within the meaning system of art"; he argues for an art that considers the uses of the elements within the work and their function within the larger cultural and social framework. Brief biographical notes on some of the 84 participating artists.… (mais)
 
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petervanbeveren | Jan 8, 2024 |
Trans. D. F. Pears and B. F. McGuinness. More understandable than I thought it would be. Very interesting, although I wonder if it solves a problem no one needed solving in any real sense. But W would agree as he determines philosophy is an action, not a problem solving mechanism and even the action is suspect, at least so far as logic is concerned because nothing can be said linguistically about the world with any logic. But did we need to prove that logic is not complete? Goedel obviously proved it can not be, but even on a practical level, philosophy can analyze ideas without needing to conform to mathematical logic. One doesn’t need the other necessarily. Still his dismantling of the idea of the logic of language was fascinating.
From intro by Russel: a philosophical work consists essentially of elucidations. The result of philosophy is not a number of “philosophical propositions” , but to make propositions clear “. (Xiii)
3.328 if a sign is useless, it is meaningless. That is the point of Occam’s maxim. (If everything behaves as if a sign had meaning, then it does have meaning.)
5.6 the limits of my language mean the limits of my world.
7 what we cannot speak about we must pass over in silence
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BookyMaven | 44 outras críticas | Dec 6, 2023 |
As is typical of a philosophy book, is filled with sentences that are written really badly or are straight up crap. But it has some cool stuff and it doesn't use much jargon, so at least you recognise that you're reading bad writing instead of thinking you are but being unsure. It's mostly an extended interrogation on what it means to understand a word, what language is, what the relation is between a word and your mind is, stuff like that. There's some interesting thoughts here, definitely, but it's a frustrating read cause it's often hard to extract them from the text. I guess that's partially to do with the translation but I really wanted a rewrite to make it sound more natural. Maybe that's unreasonable but it's just badly written, that's all.

Edit 11/04/2014: ok check out this cool passage:

"465. “An expectation is so made that whatever happens has to accord
with it, or not.”
If someone now asks: then is what is the case determined, give or take a yes or no, by an expectation or not a that is, is it determined in what sense the expectation would be satisfied by an event, no matter what happens? a then one has to reply: “Yes, unless the expression of the expectation is indefinite, for example, if it contains a disjunction of different possibilities.”"

Look at that 2nd sentence. It's *literal nonsense*. I checked the older translation, it's rendered perfectly there. But in this super duper translation they've apparently managed to completely mess up a simple sentence.

I give up. Most of the book has been frustrating, past some cool stuff at the start. Occasional interesting stuff in between lots of really obvious ideas expressed in confusing language, probably to make an argument I can't follow because the language is so unclear. I'm sorry, but this is ridiculous. I may well be stupid but it's unfair to expect people to somehow follow ideas if you can't communicate them at all and you have to guess and read people who interpret it for you. Also that's probably pissy but whatever. I'd rather read a book by someone who works hard to put these ideas in clear language than waste my time with frustrating, draining, completely unfun books.

So yeah I stopped reading at #475. Maybe I'll come back to it when I'm in a better mood or more interested in philosophy. For now... nah sorry.
… (mais)
 
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tombomp | 18 outras críticas | Oct 31, 2023 |

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