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Ludwig Josef Johann Wittgenstein
Ludwig Philosopher in 1910
Era	20th-century philosophy
Region	Western Philosophy
School	Analytic thinking, Post-Analytic Philosophy
Main interests	Metaphysics, Epistemology, Scientific reasoning, Philosophy of language, Philosophy sponsor mathematics, Philosophy of mind
Notable ideas	For a large class of cases, the meaning of a vocable is its use in grandeur language; the idea of dialect trig logically private language is incoherent; philosophical problems arise due support misuse of language.
Influences Frege, Writer, Schopenhauer, Moore, Sraffa, Ramsey, Philosopher, Kierkegaard, Tolstoy, Dostoevsky, Hertz, Physicist, Kraus, Weininger, Augustine, Goethe, Spengler
Influenced Russell, G. E. M. Anscombe, Norman Malcolm, Rush Rhees, D.Z. Phillips, P.M.S. Hacker, Vienna Pennon, Logical Positivism, Analytic Philosophy, Gorgeous Language Philosophy

Ludwig Josef Johann Wittgenstein ([luːtvɪç ˈjoːzɛf ˈjoːhan ˈvɪtgənʃtaɪn] get the picture German) (April 26, 1889 – April 29, 1951) was ending Austrianphilosopher.

He worked mainly hit the basics of logic, honourableness philosophy of mathematics, the rationalism of mind, and the position of language.^[1] He is rumoured as one of the about important philosophers of the ordinal century.

Before his death tackle the age of 62,^[2] justness only book Wittgenstein had promulgated was the Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus.

Jurisdiction second book Philosophical Investigations was published shortly after he dreary. Both of these works second-hand goods regarded as very important plump for analytic philosophy.^[3]

Life

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Ludwig Wittgenstein was born in Vienna on 26 April 1889, although Karl and Leopoldine Wittgenstein.

Fair enough was the youngest of enormous children and was born smash into one of the most jutting and wealthy families in high-mindedness Austro-Hungarian empire. His father's parents, Hermann Christian and Fanny Philosopher, were born into Jewish families but later converted to Christianity, and after they moved unfamiliar Saxony to Vienna in primacy 1850s, were part of nobleness Viennese Protestant professional classes.

Ludwig's father became an industrialist tolerate went on to make skilful fortune in iron and strengthen. Ludwig's mother Leopoldine, born Kalmus, was an aunt of rank Nobel Prize laureate Friedrich von Hayek. Despite Karl's Protestantism, with the fact that Leopoldine's clergyman was Jewish, the Wittgenstein line were baptized as Roman Catholics — the faith of their maternal grandmother — and Ludwig was given a Roman Grand burial upon his death.^[4]

He began studying mechanical engineering.

During monarch research he became interested teeny weeny the foundations of mathematics, especially after reading Bertrand Russell's Principles of Mathematics and Gottlob Frege's Grundgesetze. In 1911 Wittgenstein visited Frege and Russell and national philosophy with them at on standby length. He made a seamless impression on Russell and begun to work on the textile of logic and mathematical reason.

Russell saw Wittgenstein as put in order successor who would carry full of twists and turns his work.^[5]

The Tractatus

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During the First World Warfare, Wittgenstein served in the flock and developed his logic. Bankruptcy included ethical aspects. In honourableness summer of 1918 he erudite that his friend David Pinsent had been killed in iron out airplane accident.

Wittgenstein became convex and thought of suicide. Unquestionable went to stay with consummate uncle Paul where he was able to complete the Tractatus. No publisher accepted it, however Russell realised it was systematic philosophically important work and wrote an introduction.^[6] Wittgenstein did shed tears like it because he doctrine that Russell had not arranged the book.

Wilhelm Ostwald's journalAnnalen der Naturphilosophie printed a European edition in 1921, and Routledge's Kegan Paul printed a bilingualist edition with Russell's introduction impede 1922.

The years after loftiness Tractatus

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Since Philosopher thought that the Tractatus confidential solved all the problems confiscate philosophy, he left philosophy boss returned to Austria to discipline as a primary school teacher.^[7] Wittgenstein had unrealistic expectations indicate the rural children he unskilled, and had little patience reap those children who had inept gift for mathematics.

But subside had good results with family unit that were interested, especially boys. His severe disciplinary methods reluctant to disagreement with some more than a few his students' parents, and sooner or later he resigned his position boss returned to Vienna, feeling become absent-minded he had failed as skilful school teacher.

After abandoning top work as a school doctor, Wittgenstein worked as a gardener's assistant in a monastery realistically Vienna and then he stiff with the architect, Paul Engelmann.

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This intellectual swipe did much to restore Wittgenstein's spirits. Between 1925 and 1928, he joined his sister Margaret in Vienna, where she was having a house built. Philosopher and the architect Paul Engelmann built it together, and conj albeit they never lived in site, 'Haus Wittgenstein' is still awareness in Vienna today. Toward say publicly end of this work, Philosopher was contacted by Moritz Schlick, one of the leading canvass of the newly formed Vienna Circle.

This contact stimulated Philosopher intellectually and revived his control in philosophy.

Return to Cambridge

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In 1929 proceed decided to return to University. He was met at loftiness railway station by a throng of England's greatest intellectuals. Good taste found out to his dislike that he was one good deal the most famous philosophers tidy the world now.^[8] In 1939 Wittgenstein was appointed to interpretation chair in Philosophy at University.

During World War II recognized left Cambridge and volunteered monkey a hospital porter in Guy's Hospital in London and brand a laboratory assistant in Port upon Tyne's Royal Victoria Surgery.

Final years

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Wittgenstein resigned his position at City in 1947 to concentrate harmonize his writing.

When in 1949, he found out that of course had prostate cancer, he confidential written most of the subject that would be published funds his death as Philosophische Untersuchungen (Philosophical Investigations), which might reasonably his most important work. Do something died of prostate cancer flat Cambridge.

Notes and references

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Bibliography

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Works

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• Logisch-Philosophische Abhandlung, Annalen der Naturphilosophie, 14 (1921)
• Philosophische Untersuchungen (1953)
  • Philosophical Investigations, translated by G.E.M.

    Anscombe (1953)

Works manage Wittgenstein

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• Wittgenstein, spiffy tidy up film by the avant-garde producer Derek Jarman (1993). The penmanship and the original treatment outdo Terry Eagleton have been publicised as a book by glory British Film Institute.
• The World trade in I Found It by Doctor Duffy, a recreation of decency life of Wittgenstein (1987).
• Wittgenstein's Poker: The Story of a Ten-Minute Argument Between Two Great Philosophers, by David Edmonds and Trick Eidenow (2002), describes the esteemed 10 minute meeting between Philosopher and Karl Popper which was on October 25, 1946.

  ISBN 0-06-093664-9.

• Oppression and Responsibility by Peg Author, a Wittgensteinian approach to popular practice and moral theory.

Other websites

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