Ludwig Wittgenstein

Philosophy has a set of beliefs and ideas which explain the meaning of life and provide insights related to it. Literally, it means “love of wisdom”. In other words, philosophy is a group of activities people undertake to understand the fundamental truths and beliefs related to human existence. Ludwig Wittgenstein was considered one of the most prominent personalities according to many great philosophers of the 20th century. Tractus is considered to be an ethical system related to work, and philosophy is related to natural sciences and encompasses the clarification of thoughts. 

Overview 

Philosophy is the branch of education and research that deals with human existence, information, truth, and ethics. Through this subject, fundamental questions have been raised which examine thought processes. Philosophy is divided into various subdivisions. 

Ludwig Wittgenstein was considered one of the most prominent personalities according to many great philosophers of the 20th century. Continuously, he affects the modern philosophical thought process related to diversified themes such as logic and dialect, understanding and motive, ethics and religion, aesthetics and community, etc. 

Additionally, the main factor of his work is that it has many manifolds comprising a lot of variabilities. This causes the emergence of numerous untold stories which are difficult to interpret and understand. There is a different viewpoint in his projects related to methodology.

Generally, his work is divided into two stages of Wittgenstein’s thought, the early and the later, and both of them have different but important positions in their respective times.

In this two-stage notion, the early times are regarded as Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus. Through utilising modern logic in the concept of metaphysics, via language, he had added a new insight. He had established a new interrelationship between world, language, and thought process and thereby leading to a new nature of philosophy.

In the history of philosophy, he is one of the revolutionary thinkers who critique the traditional form of philosophy including his own work during the early work stage. His thought process in philosophy is proclaimed as anti-systematic, i.e., against the system. Still, his factual understanding of philosophy was able to answer the traditional problems. By most recent philosophers, some of his work is interpreted and questioned, while some others discuss the minute aspects of his division. They also divided his stages as post-later and middle Wittgenstein. 

Life

Ludwig Josef Johann Wittgenstein was born to a very big and wealthy family on April 26th, 1889 in Austria. Though he was a very great philosopher, he was assumed to have a rejected personality, lived in Norway in a very isolated manner, and maintained seclusion. Another controversy of his life is sexuality, however, he was gay; which again comes as a matter of discussion. He had an obsession with ethics and philosophic perfection, which is represented by a book named Ray Monk’s excellent biography Wittgenstein: The Duty of Genius.

Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus

Once upon a time, Wittgenstein explained the concept of Tractatus as an ethical system to Ludwig. In the introduction part of his book, he added two things, first, ‘thoughts are expressed in the form of Tractatus’ and ‘resolving the problem of it only helps in achieving little’. In this, ‘problems’ are related to the philosophical world, defined by Frege and Russell’s work. In the end of the book, the words of Wittgenstein are added, which are “My propositions serve as elucidations in the following way: anyone who understands me eventually recognizes them as nonsensical”.

That book does not only relate to ethics but also includes a number of prepositions under seven sets. Many philosophers rejected the nuances presented by Wittgenstein through his work and ideologies related to philosophy and refers to the regular concepts of philosophical theories.

One of the most famous is ‘picture theory’ and it’s meaning in the Tractus. According to this, all propositions are meaningful as they represent the matter of empirical fact. This could be one of the influential forms of reading but has faced a lot of challenges.  

Philosophical concept

In his viewpoint, “philosophy is not only related to natural sciences” and “it encompasses the clarification of thoughts”. This aims to clarify the confusion. Philosophy is not explanatory in nature, but also exegetical. 

Conclusion

Since philosophy is a set of beliefs and ideas that elucidate the meaning and definition of life and its complexities. Many philosophers in the history of philosophy have provided many definitions and explanations related to philosophy. It consists of a number of activities philosophers did in order to understand the dynamics of human behaviour. Ludwig is one of them, Ludwig Wittgenstein was considered one of the most prominent personalities according to many great philosophers of the 20th century. Tractus is considered to be an ethical system related to work, and philosophy is related to natural sciences and encompasses the clarification of thoughts.