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Looking at Tractatus logico-philosophicus, I'm reminded of Ayn Rand's Objectivism - another attempt to derive a philosophy from axiomatic principles. However,
by fouc 6y ago
Looking at Tractatus logico-philosophicus, I'm reminded of Ayn Rand's Objectivism - another attempt to derive a philosophy from axiomatic principles.
However, it's probably impossible to deductively derive something that lines up with reality, given how language itself is an imperfect medium for that.
It looks like Wittgenstein eventually points out the problems with the Tractatus in his later works like "The Philosophical Investigations"
- conformist 6y agoWhile I don't know a lot about Objectivism, it feels like there is a very fundamental difference. The Tractatus bans things like ethics and perhaps even metaphysics (and therefore itself, which is the ladder-type argument) to the realm of the unspeakable, whereas Ayn Rand seems to try to draw ethical or moral conclusions?
- Veen 6y ago> It looks like Wittgenstein eventually points out the problems with the Tractatus in his later works like "The Philosophical Investigations" Yes, he came to the same conclusion you did, that what he attemtped in the Tractatus was misguided at best and impossible at worst.
- kbd 6y agoIIRC doesn’t the Tractatus itself famously end with a kind of acknowledgment of its own failure? “Whereof one can’t speak, thereof one must be silent?”
- Viliam1234 6y ago> what he attemtped in the Tractatus was misguided at best and impossible at worst But it remains his most famous and most quoted (well, that one sentence specifically) book.