Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus (Version 2)


Lu par Landon D. C. Elkind

(4.8 stars; 8 reviews)

The Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus is the only book published by Ludwig Wittgenstein. Any summary would frankly do the work an injustice - the interested reader is directed to Wittgenstein's preface and to the introduction of Wittgenstein's teacher, Bertrand Russell (1872-1970) - upon these no author could measurably improve. - (Summary by Landon D. C. Elkind) (3 hr 56 min)

Chapitres

Introduction by Bertrand Russell 41:56 Lu par Landon D. C. Elkind
Preface by Wittgenstein 2:57 Lu par Landon D. C. Elkind
The 1s 1:55 Lu par Landon D. C. Elkind
The 2s 15:17 Lu par Landon D. C. Elkind
The 3s 22:57 Lu par Landon D. C. Elkind
The 4s 49:01 Lu par Landon D. C. Elkind
The 5s 1:01:33 Lu par Landon D. C. Elkind
The 6s 39:47 Lu par Landon D. C. Elkind
The 7s 0:50 Lu par Landon D. C. Elkind

Critiques

Life, the Universe, and Everything


(5 stars)

This is a good reading of a difficult book. Wittgenstein creates a cohesive foundation for philosophy, logic, mathematics and language using simple propositional statements. TLP was written during WWI as a response to Russell's 1907 Principia Mathematica, which proposed logic as the foundation of mathematics. TLP in response argues that something of which we cannot speak underlies both.