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Ludwig Wittgenstein

Born

in Wien (Vienna), Austria

April 26, 1889

Died

April 29, 1951

Website

http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/wittgenstein/

Genre

Philosophy, Science, Social Sciences

Influences

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Ludwig Josef Johann Wittgenstein (Ph.D., Trinity College, Cambridge University, 1929) was an Austrian-British philosopher who worked primarily in logic, the philosophy of mathematics, the philosophy of mind, and the philosophy of language.

Described by Bertrand Russell as "the most perfect example I have ever known of genius as traditionally conceived, passionate, profound, intense, and dominating", he helped inspire two of the twentieth century's principal philosophical movements: the Vienna Circle and Oxford ordinary language philosophy. According to an end of the century poll, professional philosophers in Canada and the U.S. rank both his Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus and Philosophical Investigations among the top five most important boo ...more

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	Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus by Ludwig Wittgenstein, David Pears (Translator), Brian McGuinness (Translator) 4.09 avg rating — 19,321 ratings — published 1921 — 473 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Philosophical Investigations 4.25 avg rating — 14,285 ratings — published 1953 — 156 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	On Certainty (Harper Perennial Modern Thought) by Ludwig Wittgenstein, G.E.M. Anscombe (Editor), Denis Paul (Translator) 4.16 avg rating — 4,616 ratings — published 1969 — 61 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Blue and Brown Books 4.12 avg rating — 2,422 ratings — published 1935 — 76 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Culture and Value by Ludwig Wittgenstein, Peter Winch (Translator) 4.09 avg rating — 1,751 ratings — published 1977 — 47 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Remarks on Colour by Ludwig Wittgenstein, Linda L. McAlister (Translator), Margarete Schattle (Translator) 3.93 avg rating — 627 ratings — published 1977 — 27 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Lectures and Conversations on Aesthetics, Psychology and Religious Belief by Ludwig Wittgenstein, Cyril Barrett (editor) 3.83 avg rating — 465 ratings — published 1966 — 33 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Major Works: Selected Philosophical Writings 4.31 avg rating — 337 ratings — published 2009 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Zettel by Ludwig Wittgenstein, G.E.M. Anscombe (Editor), G.H. von Wright (Editor) 4.21 avg rating — 294 ratings — published 1967 — 51 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Notebooks 1914-1916 by Ludwig Wittgenstein, G.E.M. Anscombe (Editor/Translator), Georg Henrik von Wright (Editor) 4.04 avg rating — 262 ratings — published 1979 — 42 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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Quotes by Ludwig Wittgenstein (?)

“A serious and good philosophical work could be written consisting entirely of jokes.”
― Ludwig Wittgenstein

tags: philosophy

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“The limits of my language means the limits of my world.”
― Ludwig Wittgenstein

tags: language, perception, power-of-words

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“I don't know why we are here, but I'm pretty sure that it is not in order to enjoy ourselves.”
― Ludwig Wittgenstein

tags: life, philosophy

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Polls

Which one is your favorite philosopher?

If it is one that is not on the list, comment below!

Friedrich Nietzsche

33 votes, 14.6%

Albert Camus

20 votes, 8.8%

Plato

15 votes, 6.6%

Marcus Aurelius

14 votes, 6.2%

Aristotle

12 votes, 5.3%

Ludwig Wittgenstein

11 votes, 4.9%

Jean-Paul Sartre

11 votes, 4.9%

Immanuel Kant

10 votes, 4.4%

Karl Marx

9 votes, 4.0%

Soren Kierkegaard

9 votes, 4.0%

René Descartes

8 votes, 3.5%

Simone de Beauvoir

7 votes, 3.1%

Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

6 votes, 2.7%

Julius Evola (write-in)

5 votes, 2.2%

Gilles Deleuze (write-in)

5 votes, 2.2%

Augustine of Hippo

4 votes, 1.8%

Thomas Aquinas

4 votes, 1.8%

David Hume

4 votes, 1.8%

Gilbert Keith Chesterton

4 votes, 1.8%

José Ortega y Gasset

4 votes, 1.8%

Martin Heidegger

4 votes, 1.8%

Jordan Peterson (write-in)

4 votes, 1.8%

yes (write-in)

4 votes, 1.8%

cumdump (write-in)

4 votes, 1.8%

spinoza (write-in)

4 votes, 1.8%

Olavo de Carvalho

3 votes, 1.3%

Roger Scruton

2 votes, 0.9%

Hannah Arendt

2 votes, 0.9%

Eric Voegelin

1 vote, 0.4%

Maurice Merleau-Ponty (write-in)

1 vote, 0.4%

Nicholas Sparks (write-in)

1 vote, 0.4%

Arthur Schopenhauer (write-in)

1 vote, 0.4%

Mário Ferreira dos Santos

0 votes, 0.0%

Michael Oakeshott

0 votes, 0.0%

226 total votes

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