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Alberto Muñoz 
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Posted: January 06 2009 at 12:00 |
hi, i recently being interest in Wittgenstein philosophy, i haven't read any of his books, but i'm eager to buy and to read.
Any suggestions, opinions, etc
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Posted: January 06 2009 at 12:05 |
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Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus and Philosophical Investigations (Philosophische Untersuchungen) are his two main works. I'd start with the latter as it's much easier to follow and also makes much more sense.
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Posted: January 06 2009 at 12:17 |
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I just read and learned about him (one of the six subjects at the baccalauréat was philosophy). There's a book out there on the market, by one naed Mircea Flonta, I've read that it is a thorough and brilliant study on Wittgenstein, but since my incursion in reading philosophy is just at the beginning, I don't think I'd embark in W right away.
About the "latter" (Ph. Inv.) I read that it's Wittgenstein's definitive "book of theory", plus a whole lot different - controversial too, made Russell bark - than the Tractatus.
Edited by Ricochet - January 06 2009 at 12:19
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Posted: January 06 2009 at 12:18 |
i have the two books, thanks, also have Grammatic philosophy
i read than some recommend the book zettel and the blue and brown books.
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Posted: January 06 2009 at 12:21 |
 Ricochet wrote:
I just read and learn about him. There's a book out there on the market, by one naed Mircea Flonta, I've read that it is a thorough and brilliant study on Wittgenstein, but since my incursion in reading philosophy is just at the beginning, I don't think I'd embark in W right away.
About the "latter" (Ph. Inv.) I read that it's Wittgenstein's definitive "book of theory", plus a whole lot different - controversial too, made Russell bark - than the Tractatus.
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I will follow that book that you reccomend to me Rico, thanks! 
Yes i have read that he regret mostly all that have write in the Tratactus, and write that book (Ph. Inv.)
Also that in his last years he teach philosophy to students and he reccomend not to study the philosophy, what an irony!
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Posted: January 06 2009 at 13:00 |
Can't say I really recommend that book, since it's in Romanian. 
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Posted: January 06 2009 at 14:27 |
Immanuel Kant was a real pissant
Who was very rarely stable.
Heidegger, Heidegger was a boozy beggar
Who could think you under the table.
David Hume could out-consume
Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, [some versions have 'Schopenhauer and Hegel']
And Wittgenstein was a beery swine
Who was just as schloshed as Schlegel.
Sorry, couldn't resist it.
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Posted: January 07 2009 at 02:53 |
Dammit, Alan - you got there first
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Posted: January 07 2009 at 03:23 |
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Not yet.
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Posted: January 07 2009 at 04:24 |
Ricochet wrote:
I just read and learned about him (one of the six subjects at the baccalauréat was philosophy). There's a book out there on the market, by one naed Mircea Flonta, I've read that it is a thorough and brilliant study on Wittgenstein, but since my incursion in reading philosophy is just at the beginning, I don't think I'd embark in W right away.
About the "latter" (Ph. Inv.) I read that it's Wittgenstein's definitive "book of theory", plus a whole lot different - controversial too, made Russell bark - than the Tractatus.
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The Tractatus was largely concerned with - and inspired by - philosophy of mathematics (in particular Frege) and symbolic logic as it stood in the early 20th century.
Philosophical Investigations was more concerned with problems of language.
There are lots of good books about Wittgenstein and his philosophy, but if you're trying to get to grips with the two main works independently the Routeledge reader's guides to the Tractatus and PI are extremely helpful (but not definitive).
Wittgenstein is aruably the only Western philosopher to have made any significant progress in Western epistemology since Kant's three great critiques; difficult stuff, but deeply rewarding.
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