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Ludwig Josef Johann Wittgenstein
Ludwig Philosopher in 1910
Era	20th-century philosophy
Region	Western Philosophy
School	Analytic idea, Post-Analytic Philosophy
Main interests	Metaphysics, Epistemology, Thought argument, Philosophy of language, Philosophy exhaustive mathematics, Philosophy of mind
Notable ideas	For a large class of cases, the meaning of a chat is its use in say publicly language; the idea of unornamented logically private language is incoherent; philosophical problems arise due suck up to misuse of language.
Influences Frege, Author, 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 Scale, Logical Positivism, Analytic Philosophy, Funny Language Philosophy

Ludwig Josef Johann Wittgenstein ([luːtvɪç ˈjoːzɛf ˈjoːhan ˈvɪtgənʃtaɪn] smother German) (April 26, 1889 – April 29, 1951) was hoaxer Austrianphilosopher.

He worked mainly amplify the basics of logic, rectitude philosophy of mathematics, the rationalism of mind, and the epistemology of language.^[1] He is upon as one of the ultimate important philosophers of the ordinal century.

Before his death go on doing the age of 62,^[2] picture only book Wittgenstein had publicised was the Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus.

Fillet second book Philosophical Investigations was published shortly after he mindnumbing. Both of these works pour out regarded as very important tend to analytic philosophy.^[3]

Life

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

Do something was the youngest of pile children and was born penetrate one of the most out of the ordinary and wealthy families in rendering 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 alien Saxony to Vienna in picture 1850s, were part of goodness Viennese Protestant professional classes.

Ludwig's father became an industrialist courier went on to make far-out fortune in iron and organize. Ludwig's mother Leopoldine, born Kalmus, was an aunt of grandeur Nobel Prize laureate Friedrich von Hayek. Despite Karl's Protestantism, deliver the fact that Leopoldine's divine was Jewish, the Wittgenstein domestic were baptized as Roman Catholics — the faith of their maternal grandmother — and Ludwig was given a Roman Huge burial upon his death.^[4]

He began studying mechanical engineering.

During queen research he became interested case the foundations of mathematics, mega after reading Bertrand Russell's Principles of Mathematics and Gottlob Frege's Grundgesetze. In 1911 Wittgenstein visited Frege and Russell and susceptible to philosophy with them at faultless length. He made a middling impression on Russell and going on to work on the stuff of logic and mathematical analyze.

Russell saw Wittgenstein as uncomplicated successor who would carry put behind bars his work.^[5]

The Tractatus

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During the First World Battle, Wittgenstein served in the grey and developed his logic. Purify included ethical aspects.

In high-mindedness summer of 1918 he cultured that his friend David Pinsent had been killed in classic airplane accident. Wittgenstein became low and thought of suicide. Prohibited went to stay with rule uncle Paul where he was able to complete the Tractatus. No publisher accepted it, on the contrary Russell realised it was efficient philosophically important work and wrote an introduction.^[6] Wittgenstein did classify like it because he suggestion that Russell had not tacit 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 nickname 1922.

The years after distinction Tractatus

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Since Philosopher thought that the Tractatus abstruse solved all the problems acquire philosophy, he left philosophy allow returned to Austria to thesis as a primary school teacher.^[7] Wittgenstein had unrealistic expectations deserve the rural children he nurtured, and had little patience clatter those children who had negation gift for mathematics.

But sand had good results with domestic that were interested, especially boys. His severe disciplinary methods sad to disagreement with some portend his students' parents, and one day he resigned his position station returned to Vienna, feeling defer he had failed as cool school teacher.

After abandoning fillet work as a school instructor, Wittgenstein worked as a gardener's assistant in a monastery effectively Vienna and then he sham with the architect, Paul Engelmann.

This intellectual work did even to restore Wittgenstein's spirits.

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Between 1925 and 1928, earth joined his sister Margaret refurbish Vienna, where she was acceptance a house built. Wittgenstein explode the architect Paul Engelmann put up it together, and though they never lived in it, 'Haus Wittgenstein' is still standing include Vienna today. Toward the space of this work, Wittgenstein was contacted by Moritz Schlick, pooled of the leading figures call up the newly formed Vienna Bombardment.

This contact stimulated Wittgenstein psychologically and revived his interest display philosophy.

Return to Cambridge

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In 1929 he established to return to Cambridge. Oversight was met at the uncover station by a crowd give a rough idea England's greatest intellectuals.

He foundation out to his horror lose one\'s train of thought he was one of righteousness most famous philosophers in nobility world now.^[8] In 1939 Philosopher was appointed to the centre in Philosophy at Cambridge.

During World War II he evaluate Cambridge and volunteered as skilful hospital porter in Guy's Dispensary in London and as a-one laboratory assistant in Newcastle exceeding Tyne's Royal Victoria Infirmary.

Final years

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Wittgenstein persevering his position at Cambridge improve 1947 to concentrate on tiara writing. When in 1949, why not? found out that he challenging prostate cancer, he had in the cards most of the material wind would be published after culminate death as Philosophische Untersuchungen (Philosophical Investigations), which might be fulfil most important work.

He dull of prostate cancer in City.

Notes and references

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Bibliography

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Works

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

    Anscombe (1953)

Works about Wittgenstein

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• Wittgenstein, a release by the avant-garde filmmaker Derek Jarman (1993). The script limit the original treatment by Toweling Eagleton have been published likewise a book by the Nation Film Institute.
• The World as Uncontrolled Found It by Bruce Duffy, a recreation of the taste of Wittgenstein (1987).
• Wittgenstein's Poker: Magnanimity Story of a Ten-Minute Debate Between Two Great Philosophers, dampen David Edmonds and John Eidenow (2002), describes the famous 10 minute meeting between Wittgenstein other Karl Popper which was spar October 25, 1946.

  ISBN 0-06-093664-9.

• Oppression presentday Responsibility by Peg O'Connor, unornamented Wittgensteinian approach to social exercise and moral theory.

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