After his father died in 1921, he distributed the enormous inheritance he inherited and chose to remain penniless. The life of Ludwig Wittgenstein lived between 1889 and 1951 and is regarded as one of the most important philosophers of the 20th century.
The life of Ludwig Wittgenstein lived between 1889 and 1951 and is regarded as one of the most important philosophers of the 20th century.
Ludwig Josef Johann Wittgenstein was an Austrian-born philosopher and mathematician. He made significant contributions to modern philosophy with his studies on logic and philosophy of language. He is considered one of the most important philosophers of the 20th century.
(Josef Johann) Ludwig Wittgenstein
He was born in Vienna on April 26, 1889.
The son of Karl Wittgenstein, one of the founders of the Austrian iron and steel industry, he was the youngest of eight very talented siblings.
He studied mechanical engineering for two years in Berlin Charlottenburg.
Ludwig Josef Johann Wittgenstein (26 April 1889 – 29 April 1951) was an Austrian philosopher who worked primarily in logic, the philosophy of mathematics, the philosophy of mind, and the philosophy of language.
With his interest in the foundations of mathematics, he turned to the study of logic and philosophy.
He read Russell's Principles of Mathematics and Frege and went to Cambridge to study the new logic.
When World War I started, he voluntarily enlisted in the Austrian army. He kept notes on logic and philosophy throughout the war. He laid the foundations of his teaching in the Tractatus in these notes, which he recorded in notebooks that he never left with him at the front.
When he returned to social life in 1919, he thought that he had finally resolved all philosophical problems with the Tractatus. He left philosophy and turned his attention to other fields.
He kept notes on logic and philosophy throughout World War I. He recorded his philosophy in notebooks that he never left with him at the front. When he returned to social life in 1919, he thought that he had finally resolved all philosophical problems with the Tractatus. He left philosophy and turned his attention to other fields. After his father's death in 1921, he distributed the enormous inheritance he inherited and chose to remain penniless.
After his father's death in 1921, he distributed the enormous inheritance he inherited and chose to remain penniless.
He attended a teacher training school and taught primary school in various regions of Lower Austria until 1926. After leaving teaching, he worked briefly as a gardener at a monastery near Vienna.
In the following two years, he drew the plan of the house his sister had built in Vienna and managed the construction works. In 1929, with a sudden decision and growing dissatisfaction with some of the teachings of the Tractatus, he returned to philosophy.
He became a lecturer at Trinity College, Cambridge. In 1939 he was appointed to the chair of philosophy at Cambridge University. From 1930 onwards, he developed a new philosophy, separate from the Tractatus, in front of a group of students in the lectures he gave almost every year in the small classes of Cambridge.
He became a British citizen after Hitler's invasion of Austria. He died of cancer in Cambridge on 29 April 1951.
Major Works: Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus (1922), Philosophical Investigations (1953), The Blue and Brown Books (1958), Zettel (196), Remarks on Colors (1977), On Certainty (1969), Culture and Value (1970), Philosophical Grammar, (1974).