Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus

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TRACTATUS LOGICO-PHILOSOPHICUS
Ludwig Wittgenstein
German text with an English translation en regard by C. K. Ogden
Introduction by Bertrand Russell
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 1920s and
1930s, but many other philosophers were stimulated by its philosophy of
language, finding attractive, even if ultimately unsatisfactory, its view that
propositions were pictures of reality. Perhaps most of all, its own author, after
his return to philosophy in the late 1920s, was fascinated by its vision of an
inexpressible, crystalline world of logical relationships.
C. K. Ogden's translation of the Tractatus... Tovább

Fülszöveg

TRACTATUS LOGICO-PHILOSOPHICUS
Ludwig Wittgenstein
German text with an English translation en regard by C. K. Ogden
Introduction by Bertrand Russell
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 1920s and
1930s, but many other philosophers were stimulated by its philosophy of
language, finding attractive, even if ultimately unsatisfactory, its view that
propositions were pictures of reality. Perhaps most of all, its own author, after
his return to philosophy in the late 1920s, was fascinated by its vision of an
inexpressible, crystalline world of logical relationships.
C. K. Ogden's translation of the Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus has a unique
provenance. As revealed in Letters of C. K. Ogden (1973) and in
correspondence in The Times Literary Supplement, Wittgenstein, Ramsey and
Moore all worked with Ogden on the translation, which had Wittgenstein's
complete approval. The very name Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus was of
Ogden's devising; and there is very strong feeling among philosophers that,
among the differing translations of this work; Ogden's is the definitive text —
and Wittgenstein's version of the English equivalent of his Logisch-
Philosophische Abhandlung. Vissza