Tractatus Logico Philosophicus (Routledge Classics)
 

Tractatus Logico Philosophicus (Routledge Classics)

by Ludwig Wittgenstein

Perhaps the most important work of philosophy written in the twentieth century, Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus was the only philosophical work that Ludwig Wittgenstein published during his lifetime. Written in short, carefully numbered paragraphs of extreme brilliance, it captured the imagination of a generation of philosophers. For Wittgenstein, logic was something we use to conquer a reality... (read more)

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Quite an impressive ontological construction and enough courage to draw all the consequences. Either you agree or not with ethics, religion or aesthetics being outside the world(read as outside logic) you can't say Wittgenstein doesn't have a point about everything that's "more elevated" being out of the logical construction. As short as it is, the book tries to explain everything there is in a systematic way. The problem comes when we take arguments into consideration: you can't say...

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