Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus

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Wittgenstein's Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus
The Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus first appeared in 1921 and was the only philosophical work that Ludwig Wittgenstein (1889-1951) published during his lifetime. Written in short, carefully-numbered paragraphs of extreme compression and brilliance it immediately convinced many of its readers and captured the imagination of all. Its chief influence, at first, was on the Logical Positivists of the 1920's and 30's, but many other philosophers were stimulated by its philosophy of language, finding attractive, even if ultimately imsatisfactory, its view that propositions were pictiu-es of reality. Perhaps most of ail, its own author, after his remm to philosophy in the late 1920's, was fascinated by its vision of an inexpressible, crystalline world of logical relationships. The posthumous publication of other writings of his has, therefore, only served to reawaken interest in the Tractatus and to illuminate its more neglected aspects.... Tovább

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Wittgenstein's Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus
The Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus first appeared in 1921 and was the only philosophical work that Ludwig Wittgenstein (1889-1951) published during his lifetime. Written in short, carefully-numbered paragraphs of extreme compression and brilliance it immediately convinced many of its readers and captured the imagination of all. Its chief influence, at first, was on the Logical Positivists of the 1920's and 30's, but many other philosophers were stimulated by its philosophy of language, finding attractive, even if ultimately imsatisfactory, its view that propositions were pictiu-es of reality. Perhaps most of ail, its own author, after his remm to philosophy in the late 1920's, was fascinated by its vision of an inexpressible, crystalline world of logical relationships. The posthumous publication of other writings of his has, therefore, only served to reawaken interest in the Tractatus and to illuminate its more neglected aspects.
In the present edition Mr Pears and Mr McGuinness have been able to revise their translation in the light of Wittgenstein's own suggestions and comments in his correspondence with C. K. Ogden about the first translation.
'Mr Pears and Mr McGxiinness have not only achieved a clear and natural English but have been meticulous in their care for acciu-acy. They have added an index which will be of great value to close students of the work.' — The Times Literary Supplement
Tears and McGuinness can claim our gratimde not for doing merely this (a better translation) but for doing it with such a near approach to perfection. The present reviewer can find little or nothing of consequence wrong with their work.' — Mind Vissza