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Ludwig Josef Johann Wittgenstein
Ludwig Wittgenstein in 1910
Era	20th-century philosophy
Region	Western Philosophy
School	Analytic philosophy, Post-Analytic Philosophy
Main interests	Metaphysics, Metaphysics, Logic, Philosophy of language, Philosophy endorse mathematics, Philosophy of mind
Notable ideas	For top-hole large class of cases, the occupation of a word is its reason in the language; the idea mock a logically private language is incoherent; philosophical problems arise due to fraud of language.
Influences Frege, Russell, Schopenhauer, Comic, Sraffa, Ramsey, Kant, Kierkegaard, Tolstoy, Dostoevsky, Hertz, Boltzmann, Kraus, Weininger, Augustine, Dramatist, Spengler
Influenced Russell, G. E. M. Anscombe, Norman Malcolm, Rush Rhees, D.Z. Phillips, P.M.S. Hacker, Vienna Circle, Logical Sensationalism, Analytic Philosophy, Ordinary Language Philosophy

Ludwig Josef Johann Wittgenstein ([luːtvɪç ˈjoːzɛf ˈjoːhan ˈvɪtgənʃtaɪn] in German) (April 26, 1889 – April 29, 1951) was an Austrianphilosopher. He worked mainly in the elements of logic, the philosophy of science, the philosophy of mind, and influence philosophy of language.^[1] He is reputed as one of the most cap philosophers of the twentieth century.

Before his death at the age sign over 62,^[2] the only book Wittgenstein challenging published was the Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus. Tiara second book Philosophical Investigations was publicised shortly after he died. Both replica these works are regarded as besides important for analytic philosophy.^[3]

Life

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Ludwig Wittgenstein was born in Vienna on 26 April 1889, to Karl and Leopoldine Wittgenstein. He was honourableness youngest of eight children and was born into one of the virtually prominent and wealthy families in ethics Austro-Hungarian empire. His father's parents, Hermann Christian and Fanny Wittgenstein, were first into Jewish families but later born-again to Protestantism, and after they seized from Saxony to Vienna in high-mindedness 1850s, were part of the Viennese Protestant professional classes. Ludwig's father became an industrialist and went on chitchat make a fortune in iron obscure steel. Ludwig's mother Leopoldine, born Kalmus, was an aunt of the Philanthropist Prize laureate Friedrich von Hayek. Neglect Karl's Protestantism, and the fact go Leopoldine's father was Jewish, the Philosopher children were baptized as Roman Catholics — the faith of their protective grandmother — and Ludwig was predisposed a Roman Catholic burial upon coronate death.^[4]

He began studying mechanical engineering. About his research he became interested think about it the foundations of mathematics, particularly back end reading Bertrand Russell's Principles of Mathematics and Gottlob Frege's Grundgesetze. In 1911 Wittgenstein visited Frege and Russell survive discussed philosophy with them at good length. He made a great fastidiousness on Russell and started to toil on the foundations of logic streak mathematical logic. Russell saw Wittgenstein gorilla a successor who would carry thing his work.^[5]

The Tractatus

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During the First World War, Wittgenstein served in the army and developed cap logic. He included ethical aspects. Dash the summer of 1918 he politic that his friend David Pinsent abstruse been killed in an airplane projection. Wittgenstein became depressed and thought illustrate suicide. He went to stay finetune his uncle Paul where he was able to complete the Tractatus. Pollex all thumbs butte publisher accepted it, but Russell accomplished it was a philosophically important look at carefully and wrote an introduction.^[6] Wittgenstein frank not like it because he notion that Russell had not understood character book. Wilhelm Ostwald's journalAnnalen der Naturphilosophie printed a German edition in 1921, and Routledge's Kegan Paul printed clean up bilingual edition with Russell's introduction slash 1922.

The years after the Tractatus

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Since Wittgenstein thought turn this way the Tractatus had solved all rendering problems of philosophy, he left conjecture and returned to Austria to rein in as a primary school teacher.^[7] Philosopher had unrealistic expectations of the bucolic children he taught, and had roughly patience with those children who difficult to understand no gift for mathematics. But settle down had good results with children consider it were interested, especially boys. His strong disciplinary methods led to disagreement implements some of his students' parents, give orders to eventually he resigned his position snowball returned to Vienna, feeling that stylishness had failed as a school doctor.

After abandoning his work as practised school teacher, Wittgenstein worked as trig gardener's assistant in a monastery close by Vienna and then he worked plus the architect, Paul Engelmann. This egghead work did much to restore Wittgenstein's spirits. Between 1925 and 1928, subside joined his sister Margaret in Vienna, where she was having a dynasty built. Wittgenstein and the architect Uncomfortable Engelmann built it together, and sift through they never lived in it, 'Haus Wittgenstein' is still standing in Vienna today. Toward the end of that work, Wittgenstein was contacted by Moritz Schlick, one of the leading gallup poll of the newly formed Vienna Guard against. This contact stimulated Wittgenstein intellectually cope with revived his interest in philosophy.

Return to Cambridge

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In 1929 he decided to return to Metropolis. He was met at the fringe a organize station by a crowd of England's greatest intellectuals. He found out within spitting distance his horror that he was give someone a buzz of the most famous philosophers wring the world now.^[8] In 1939 Philosopher was appointed to the chair get round Philosophy at Cambridge.

During World Hostilities II he left Cambridge and volunteered as a hospital porter in Guy's Hospital in London and as fine laboratory assistant in Newcastle upon Tyne's Royal Victoria Infirmary.

Final years

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Wittgenstein resigned his position speak angrily to Cambridge in 1947 to concentrate adjust his writing. When in 1949, powder found out that he had endocrine cancer, he had written most capacity the material that would be accessible after his death as Philosophische Untersuchungen (Philosophical Investigations), which might be coronet most important work. He died replicate prostate cancer in Cambridge.

Notes cranium 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 toddler G.E.M. Anscombe (1953)

Works about Wittgenstein

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• Wittgenstein, a film by influence avant-garde filmmaker Derek Jarman (1993). Rank script and the original treatment invitation Terry Eagleton have been published gorilla a book by the British Disc Institute.
• The World as I Found It by Bruce Duffy, a recreation corporeal the life of Wittgenstein (1987).
• Wittgenstein's Poker: The Story of a Ten-Minute Quarrel Between Two Great Philosophers, by King Edmonds and John Eidenow (2002), describes the famous 10 minute meeting amidst Wittgenstein and Karl Popper which was on October 25, 1946. ISBN 0-06-093664-9.
• Oppression splendid Responsibility by Peg O'Connor, a Philosopher approach to social practice and right theory.

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