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I have read the Tractatus and the Investigations and some stuff on it on the internet; as I am very interested in his thought, what would you recommend reading next? I'd be especially interested in his (later?) thought on ethics/culture etc.

English/German language doesn't matter

>> No.4252259

>>4252252
learn German and reread it again

>> No.4252263

After Wittgenstein, you put philosophy to bed.

>> No.4252270

All of them. His other works I found much easier to read and very enjoyable, because he's not trying to crack open reality. He's just musing on certain topics.

>> No.4252268

>>4252259
I read it in German already

>> No.4252272

>>4252268

Relearn German then read it again.

>> No.4252279

>>4252270
Can you point out one work where I should start in your opinion? What did you find most interesting?

>> No.4252303

Now you take 5 years off and contemplate on what you have just read. 5 years later you might have an understanding of what Wittgenstein was getting at.

>> No.4252792

Read the entire nachlass or dont even bother.

>> No.4252805

>>4252303

This. I read the first PAGE of the Tractatus, put it down and decided that if it meant anything, I wasn't getting it.

Slowly, over the course of the next few weeks, a few points began to dawn on me.

It's got to be one of the densest works ever in terms of quantity of thought as a proportion to quantity of words.

>> No.4253357

>>4252805
The tractatus is not dense, it is just incomplete. He wrote a huge ton of remarks and in the end he just selected the "most important", from an aesthetic pov, and burnt the rest. He even said once that every numeral of the TLP could be the title of a section to be further developed.

>> No.4253377

http://lib.freescienceengineering.org/view.php?id=360691

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>> No.4253415

>>4253377
Not OP but thanks for the link. I'll probably never read all of this but it's still great to have!

>> No.4253437

>>4252263
>implying Wittgenstein final boss of human thought with go to bed language-game

Sartre was wrong. Post-modernism is hell.

>> No.4253585

>>4253415
I think they should update it cause that version is pretty much a mess imo. Plus, it looks too win95 for this time and age.

>> No.4253620

>>4252263
No you don't, you have a whole game of post-rational value shuffling to play. Nietzsche time.

>> No.4253637

>>4252263

Unless you're one of the many philosophers who came after him and either disagree with his meta-philosophy or think there's some way to extend his thinking. What's the deal with everyone here thinking Witters is the be-all-end-all of philosophy?

>> No.4253667

>>4253637
they've likely read enough wittgenstein or supplements on wittgenstein to know how important his ideas are but not enough wittgenstein to even have a working knowledge of his ideas

>> No.4253672

>>4253637
It's a convenient excuse to dismiss it.