Wittgenstein,
Ludwig
(1889 - 1951)
The aim of the philosophical analysis is make clear indistinct concepts and obscure
thoughts. Ludwig Wittgenstein expressed this idea of philosophy's duty in his work
Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus as follows:
"Most propositions and questions which have been written about philosophical matters are
not false, but senseless. We cannot, therefore, answer questions of this kind at all, but
only state their senselessness. Most questions and propositions of the philosophers
result from the fact that we do not understand the logic of our language.
(They are of the same kind as the question whether the Good is more or less identical
than the Beautiful.)
And so it is not to be wondered at that the deepest problems are really not
problems. (4.003)"
The philosophy is, according to Wittgenstein, "criticism of a language" (4.0031) -
it is not a doctrine but activities whose object is a language and as a result making
clear thoughts and propositions (4.112).
Tractatus
Logico-Philosophicus
"When I talk about a language (words, sentences, etc.), I must speak the language of
every day. Is this language somehow too coarse and material for what we want to say?
Then how is another one be constructed? - And how strange, that we should be able
to do anything at all with the one we have!"
(Ludwig Wittgenstein)
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Euclid
(about 300 B.C.)
The picture above is representing Wittgenstein and von Wright at Gambridge in 1949 by
Knut Erik Tranöy
von Wright, Georg
Henrik
(1916 - 2003)
During his Gambridge years von Wright became interested in logical properties of
various modalities: ethic, deontic and epistemic. An essay in Modal Logic (1951)
studies, syntactically, various deductive systems of the modal logic. In that year he
published his famous article "Deontic Logic" in Mind. It made him as
the inventor of the Modern Deontic Logic. These logical works
profoundly influenced to the analytic philosophy, especially to the action theory. Von
Wright distinguishes technical oughts (means-ends relationships) from norms issued by a
norm-authority. His Norm and action (1963) discusses philosophical problems
concerning the existence of norms and the truth of normative statements. His main work on
meta-ethics is The Varieties of Goodness (1963).
From Wittgenstein he inherited also an enormous quantity of manuscripts and
notes. After "Tractatus" Wittgenstein did not publish himself any of his own works.
Together with Gertrude Elizabeth Margaret Anscombe (1919 - 2001) and Rush Rhees,
von Wright received publication-rights to the collection of Wittgenstein's works.
"The knowledge is in the same degree the medium of a fortune, a misfortune, a good
action and a devilish. The knowledge can be the individual's highest form of life but
also most disastrous."
(Georg Henrik von Wright)
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