Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus (Version 2)
Ludwig Wittgenstein
Read by Landon D. C. Elkind
The Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus is the only book published by Ludwig Wittgenstein. Any summary would frankly do the work an injustice - the interested reader is directed to Wittgenstein's preface and to the introduction of Wittgenstein's teacher, Bertrand Russell (1872-1970) - upon these no author could measurably improve. - (Summary by Landon D. C. Elkind) (3 hr 56 min)
Chapters
Introduction by Bertrand Russell | 41:56 | Read by Landon D. C. Elkind |
Preface by Wittgenstein | 2:57 | Read by Landon D. C. Elkind |
The 1s | 1:55 | Read by Landon D. C. Elkind |
The 2s | 15:17 | Read by Landon D. C. Elkind |
The 3s | 22:57 | Read by Landon D. C. Elkind |
The 4s | 49:01 | Read by Landon D. C. Elkind |
The 5s | 1:01:33 | Read by Landon D. C. Elkind |
The 6s | 39:47 | Read by Landon D. C. Elkind |
The 7s | 0:50 | Read by Landon D. C. Elkind |
Reviews
Life, the Universe, and Everything
Joseph Brown
This is a good reading of a difficult book. Wittgenstein creates a cohesive foundation for philosophy, logic, mathematics and language using simple propositional statements. TLP was written during WWI as a response to Russell's 1907 Principia Mathematica, which proposed logic as the foundation of mathematics. TLP in response argues that something of which we cannot speak underlies both.