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waxwing
24 Oct 2005, 04:59 AM
Anyone know of a good online translation of Wittgenstein's Tractatus Logicus?
I've been running into lots of commentary, some intro, but not the entire text in a language I understand.

Trystorp
24 Oct 2005, 05:12 AM
http://www.kfs.org/~jonathan/witt/tlph.html

http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/5740

I haven't read either of these so can't comment on their quality.

waxwing
24 Oct 2005, 01:06 PM
Much appreciated. The first is the one I had seen, but lost.

cuspuser
25 Oct 2005, 03:37 AM
http://www.voidspace.org.uk/psychology/wittgenstein/witt_index.shtml

even better ;)



... his later work, for those who haven't read it.

illusivemind
27 Oct 2005, 01:39 PM
One of the weirdest structures of an academic philosophical paper you'd have to admit. I think Western philosophy has never recovered from it's addiction to propositional logic and Platonic Truth. Just my point of view.

ApeTheDog
27 Oct 2005, 02:34 PM
It's in here as well, in a condensed form. That might help, as I've noticed in your blog you don't seem to find the time to read it.
http://www.btinternet.com/~glynhughes/squashed/

I read the first three books (of course, setting out for myself to read through them all in order, rather than picking out the ones that seemed the most interesting) and very much felt like I wasn't missing out on anything - whilst still being able to read through them in a few hours.

The Tractatus Logicus on that site looks like you can read through it in under an hour and a half, with time to think over the points he gives, included.