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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) 4.10 avg rating — 22,188 ratings — published 1921 — 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
	Philosophical Investigations 4.26 avg rating — 15,693 ratings — published 1953 — 179 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 by Ludwig Wittgenstein, G.E.M. Anscombe (Editor), Denis Paul (Translator) 4.16 avg rating — 4,962 ratings — published 1969 — 72 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 4.13 avg rating — 2,436 ratings — published 1935 — 91 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) 4.08 avg rating — 1,932 ratings — published 1977 — 50 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) 3.90 avg rating — 714 ratings — published 1950 — 50 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 — 548 ratings — published 1966 — 35 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 4.32 avg rating — 377 ratings — published 2009 — 5 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 — 322 ratings — published 1967 — 57 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 — 293 ratings — published 1916 — 44 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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“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

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Friedrich Nietzsche

89 votes, 9.7%

Albert Camus

65 votes, 7.1%

Karl Marx

44 votes, 4.8%

Soren Kierkegaard

40 votes, 4.4%

Aristotle

38 votes, 4.2%

Ludwig Wittgenstein

35 votes, 3.8%

Plato

33 votes, 3.6%

Immanuel Kant

31 votes, 3.4%

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31 votes, 3.4%

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28 votes, 3.1%

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27 votes, 3.0%

Jean-Paul Sartre

27 votes, 3.0%

Thomas Aquinas

26 votes, 2.8%

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22 votes, 2.4%

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René Descartes

16 votes, 1.8%

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Hypatia

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3 votes, 0.3%

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2 votes, 0.2%

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George Berkeley (write-in)

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