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A review by djla2009
Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus by Ludwig Wittgenstein
I had my review for this book all planned out after reading proposition 5. But then I read proposition 6 and the concluding proposition, 7. And my thoughts and understanding of what Wittgenstein was saying completely changed. Granted, I couldn't follow all of his arguments, I think I got the gist. (I also read the Wiki summary afterwards)
I went into this already knowing what proposition 7 was: "Whereof one cannot speak, thereof one must be silent"
I thought he meant that people who have nothing to say shouldn't talk. But what he's saying is that we shouldn't bother saying things that can't be put into words. That the big questions of philosophy are beyond what we can make sense of.
He writes in a very mathematical style of giving a proposition and then giving his "elucidations" on each one. He also makes use of a lot of symbolic logic, which I couldn't grasp the purpose of it a majority of the time.
Ultimately, I think he's saying that philosophy is a big waste of time. I think he may be right that the big questions of philosophy are unanswerable by us who are constrained inside of this temporal space, but I disagree that this means they aren't worth asking. I don't think they are nonsensical questions. But I agree, God would need to reveal the answers (assuming we could even understand those answers haha)
I went into this already knowing what proposition 7 was: "Whereof one cannot speak, thereof one must be silent"
I thought he meant that people who have nothing to say shouldn't talk. But what he's saying is that we shouldn't bother saying things that can't be put into words. That the big questions of philosophy are beyond what we can make sense of.
He writes in a very mathematical style of giving a proposition and then giving his "elucidations" on each one. He also makes use of a lot of symbolic logic, which I couldn't grasp the purpose of it a majority of the time.
Ultimately, I think he's saying that philosophy is a big waste of time. I think he may be right that the big questions of philosophy are unanswerable by us who are constrained inside of this temporal space, but I disagree that this means they aren't worth asking. I don't think they are nonsensical questions. But I agree, God would need to reveal the answers (assuming we could even understand those answers haha)