Description
Book SynopsisThe author offers a new look at one of the most influential books in the history of philosophy: Ludwig Wittgenstein’s
Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus. He presents the
Tractatus as expressing the intellectual anxieties of its modernist epoch. The most intriguing but usually unanswered question concerning the
Tractatus is why Wittgenstein had to think that only propositions of natural science have meaning. The author reviews the most popular interpretations of the
Tractatus and comes to the conclusion that the early Wittgenstein was an ethical subjectivist. With this insight, he solves the tension between Tractarian theses that influenced neopositivism and its mystical part.
Table of ContentsContents: The Problem of Ontology in the
Tractatus – The Simple Objects of the
Tractatus – Wittgenstein’s Theory of Judgement – The Transcendental Self – Ethics in Wittgenstein’s Early Writings – The Defence of Human Values by early Wittgenstein.
