Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus (Routledge Classics)

I consider this book to be very worth reading because it is associated with an extremely important period in philosophy following the work of Frege, Russell and Whitehead. I found it to be very opaque. Wittgenstein seemed to be struggling with ideas he encountered while considering the work of Frege, Russell and Whitehead. The preface by Russell showed that he considered the work to be very significant. I intend to study more about this, and will probably revise this review later. For now, I would recommend reading the Tractatus, but I did not understand it very well.I think that a primary aim of Wittgenstein in the Tractatus was to address Russell's paradox and other problems of the "language" of logic, as being developed by Frege, Russell and Whitehead at that time. This led him into deep waters with respect to the mysteries of language, and a seeming necessity to set limits, even if these limits were somewhat arbitrary. Certainly some of his insights in this regard were highly penetrating. In particular, he viewed transgressing limits where truth could be adequately assessed as entering a realm of nonsense. I feel that had Gödel's work been available at the time, Wittgenstein might have thought somewhat differently about the limits he perceived. On the other hand, Wittgenstein ignored this work later in the more mature phases of his thinking. I came away from the Tractatus feeling that while it is still of great importance, especially as it was at a historical nexus in the evolution of logic, and displays some profound insights, time has somewhat passed it by.

Good copy. A sublime book, well-translated. Forceful argument laden with just enough mythopoeticism to make sense

Excellent book. Really easy to understand. Fun read. Book reads like a table of contents. Its great. However, the cover is a really low quality jpeg. BOOOO. Bad quality physical book.

Wittgenstein changed his views after he wrote the Tractatus and rejected the conclusions found in it. What is wonderful about the book is the experience of seeing how a great philosopher explores philosophical questions. If you read the book uncritically enough times that you understand what is being said then you will gain a tool set for handling ideas that few possess.

This book was written years before any form of programmable computer was around. Decades before the first digital computer was devised, Wittgenstein wrote this book as a dissertation thesis to Bertrand Russell, I would assume to show him the first sample of human written code.Arguably, this is the first computer code written to be an abstract sample similar to codes to be written many years ahead, to be parsed by other human logicians. The reader should not try to understand every proposition in it, as it is. The reason the book was written is to show that it is possible to program humans (or machines) by means of a written text.

There are some good ideas to be understood.

this is the most complicated book ever. it arrived within a reasonable amount of time as specified by the tracking information given. clean new book. no complaints.

Incoherence