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Major Works: Selected Philosophical Writings (2009)

by Ludwig Wittgenstein(Favorite Author)

4.25 of 5 Votes: 2

ISBN

0061550248 (ISBN13: 9780061550249)

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English

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Nonfiction

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Harper Perennial Modern Classics

review 1: I am not rating this book. i still don't know how to rate this work, As Wittgenstein put it " whereof one cannot speak one must keep silent" . Why? Because whatever you say is going to be wrong. Here Even admitting my failure is going to make it wrong........... i think there is some criterion for liking and disliking a thing.Also there is attitudes and interests ,it may be on anything varying from object to subject or material to spiritual etc etc.This may constitute both conscious and unconscious state of a person to develop such attitude. This is one of the books which i come across where i cannot pass any judgments depending on my developed sensibilities. it never occurred to me like anything is language game. His logic never impress me because its first of its k... moreind. Also it never failed to impress me either What he done is neither solving or analyzing any problem.Whereas he tries to dissolve them and their by tries to deprogram the readers. overall its a one of its kind ...
review 2: (before my review, I will say that I was slightly disappointed in the typos throughout the HarperPerennial x ModernThought publications. Be that as it may, I will not count it against my rating.)This truly is a masterpiece of modern thought. It is little that Wittgenstein has been picked up as a predecessor to both right wing (analytic) and left wing (continental) philosophers. He leaves so much room for thought and there are so many facets that one can explore that, as I just mentioned, can be taken in many directions; much as what happened with Hegel and the schisms that bled into Fascist and Communist ideologies alike.Whether or not you consider yourself a person interested in philosophy, I highly encourage you to read this. It is not some supercilious attempt at telling the reader how things "really are." Rather, Wittgenstein lays out some valuable insights in plain language the basic tenents of formal logic and how important it is to keep these in mind when considering just how it is we communicate with each other.The Tractatus may be difficult for those who have never studied formal or symbolic logic, but don't let that deter you. If you are really interested in that piece I am sure there are resources online that can break down the general rules. The blue and brown book though are basically a walk through of the Tractatus and how such understanding can clear up the muddled concepts of age-old philosophical problems - which is interesting enough as it is.Even as someone who has studied philosophy for some time though I would say the most interesting of all is in his "on certainty." I will warn you though, it is important to read the preceding material to get a solid understanding of what he is getting at here. This section has great insight into everyday/inductive/empirical "knowledge" that I think all people should take into consideration (given that probably 90 percent of all knowledge people commonly talk about is just of this type). We far too often take language for granted and base the premisses of our convictions and ideals that, though not necessarily wrong per se, are muddled and lead to faulty conclusions. At the very least this section offers valuable tools to the average person (without taking an epistemology class) to take a look at what it means to "know" something and how to better scrutinize those who try to tell us that they do.Wonderful book! less

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