Wittgenstein's Tractatus

Lecture 11, Wittgenstein's Tractatus, of UGS 303, Ideas of the Twentieth Century, at the University of Texas at Austin, Fall 2013. This class is part of a section of the course on ideas of the 1920s. @PhiloofAlexandria

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I enjoyed this presentation. As a general introduction to the philosophy of Wittgenstein it works pretty well. That said, if you read the notes taken by Friedrich Waismann during Wittgenstein's talk to the Vienna Circle its obvious that he was recycling his 1929 Lecture on Ethics - the text of which I read a few times a year just to keep myself honest. Its hard to imagine Wittgenstein being more transparent about his ultimate aims. I read Wittgenstein and David Hume for the "pure research" as it were. I read Darwin for the "applied science". My guilty pleasure (there... you dragged it out of me), is reading Rudolf Carnap and taking his assertions at face value. My sense is that those of us who enjoy Wittgenstein each latch on to some point or other and spend years taking a deep dive into its more profound implications. For me that would be his definition of logical space, "logischen Raum " (C.K. Ogden). Well done Professor Bonevac! Your lecture is impactful and provocative.

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