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"Philosophy is not a theory," asserted Austro-British philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein (1889-1951), "but an activity." In this 1921 opus, his only philosophical work published during his lifetime, Wittgenstein defined the object of philosophy as the logical clarification of thoughts and proposed the solution to most philosophic problems by means of a critical method of linguistic analysis. In proclaiming philosophy as a matter of logic rather than of metaphysics, Wittgenstein created a sensation among intellectual circles that influenced the development of logical positivism and changed the direction of 20th-century thought.
Beginning with the principles of symbolism and the necessary relations between words and objects, the author applies his theories to various branches of traditional philosophy, illustrating how mistakes arise from inappropriate use of symbolism and misuses of language. After examining the logical structure of propositions and the nature of logical inference, he discusses the theory of knowledge as well as principles of physics and ethics and aspects of the mystical.
Supervised by the author himself, this translation from the German by C. K. Ogden is regarded as the definitive text. A magisterial introduction by the distinguished philosopher Bertrand Russell hails Wittgenstein's achievement as extraordinarily important, "one which no serious philosopher can afford to neglect". Introduction by Bertrand Russell.
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- Joe
- 07-07-23
Narration is the main problem
A couple hours of audio editing and this audiobook would have been greatly improved by excising hesitations, stammers, reputations, and sniffs. The material is difficult enough to follow, but these defects in narration/editing derail your train of thought repeatedly. Find a different audiobook.
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- Steve Clement
- 06-04-21
Bad interpretation and a subpar recording
The narrator is very bad at pronouncing German words, obviously no phonetic text is at their disposal.
Also in the recording some sentences are started twice due to a mistake, very poor post-processing and any final listen would have caught this.
The first title I ever wanted a refund, sad for the original author and mostly the content.
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- Paula Berlowitz
- 06-12-24
Awesome book ruined by the narrator
I couldn't listen until the end of the preface! Narrator has no ideia about what he's reading!
Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus (Latin, not English, so it should be pronounced as in Latin!) is a great book which presents us a very interesting set of ideas about the ways we use language, and the implications of those on our very thinking.
But the narrator can't even say Wittgenstein's name correctly (pronunciation: "Vit-gen-shthayn")! All German words are pronounced incorrectly, and they are not mere words: they're philosophical terms. A minimum research is necessary when you are going to record the reading of a specific field of knowledge!!! And there's a great difference between accent and mispronunciation.
Many mistakes made during reading making it difficult to maintain the focus.
Regret buying.
Won't listen to the end.
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