Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus

The Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus is one of the most influential philosophical works of the twentieth century. Wittgenstein attempts to identify the relationship between language and reality, arguing that propositions 'picture' facts through shared logical form. The work culminates in the insight that ethics, aesthetics, and the meaning of life cannot be said but only shown, concluding with the famous proposition: 'Whereof one cannot speak, thereof one must be silent.'

7 sections ยท 24 lessons

Course outline

Reality's Structure

  1. Facts, Not Things
  2. Simple Objects
  3. States of Affairs
  4. Logical Space
  5. Reality's Structure

Picture Theory

  1. Pictures as Models
  2. Logical Form
  3. Thoughts as Pictures
  4. Sense and Truth
  5. Picture Theory

Propositions

  1. Names and Objects
  2. Elementary Propositions
  3. Truth-Functions
  4. Truth Tables
  5. Propositions

Nature of Logic

  1. Tautologies
  2. Contradictions
  3. Logic as Transcendental
  4. General Form
  5. Nature of Logic

Limits of Language

  1. Saying vs. Showing
  2. Boundaries of Sense
  3. Science and Philosophy
  4. Limits of Language

The Mystical

  1. Ethics and Value
  2. The Mystical Feeling
  3. The Subject
  4. The Mystical

Conclusion

  1. The Ladder
  2. Silence
  3. Conclusion

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