Wittgenstein's Tractatus

Introductio to Ludwig Wittgenstein's Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus, The Analytic Tradition, Spring 2017

[pkumarsachin]

It is admirable that Prof brings discussion from Nyaya and Buddhist philosophies into a discussion on Wittgenstein.. Wittgenstein has close parallels to Indian philosophies of language

[addienorris]

this video is making me miss irl lectures, thanks for the classroom spirit

[navis]

"Whereof one cannot speak, thereof one must be silent" -- mic drop....

[marcosbrauer]

Woah, this video is amazing. I'm so entertained, I planned to watch just the intro but now I can't stop watching.

[saral]

"The answer is: There is no question." - And no one to propose either. ;-) Thank you so much for this beautiful summary of Wittgenstein's treatise. You have a wonderful style of presentation. Very captivating!

[dibble]

By the way I see you strain to include the students. I get the impression they are a pampered lot but I admire your effort and I think you are an excellent lecturer. I studied philosophy and wish I had a lecturer with your determination drive and motivation.

[mredawardani]

Oh God ! Did I just find the channel I've been looking for ? Philosophy Tiiime ❤️

[bobs]

Certain students just wouldn't let this poor guy complete a full thought.

[hansvetter]

Wittgenstein had written his early work "Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus" during his participation in the first WW as a young man and completed its writing in 1918. A decade later in Cambridge Wittgenstein became a member of the apostels and received his PhD with his early work. But only few years later he distanced himself from his early work ... but kept his PhD ... ;-)

[wolfsschanze]

Such an honor that I discovered you Sir. ❤

[namelessness]

Really enjoyed this, great teacher. I will now attempt to think, I think.

[sircopperfield]

Thank you for your help professor. It will help me a lot with my seminar about Tractatus logico-philosophicus.

[thardingau]

It’s an interesting question as to whether there are ‘negative facts’, such as there is no X in this room. If so, the number of negative facts is infinite, compared to ‘positive facts’ (there is an X in this room) which I assume are finite.

[victorb]

Prof Bonevac thank you sharing. You're a great teacher!

[quagapp]

By pictures I took it as a model as such. I am 70, lol, but I have been reading the Tractatus slowly reading it once a week. I read other things. I know that W abandoned this direction and moved to his other ideas. He was moving toward a fundamental reality, structure etc. But it is theoretical. There is no essence say, of a cat. Ironically W moves toward an abstraction of a cat. Also, ultimately he moves away from the possibility of certainty (as as with Derrida language is the essential problem that makes certainty of mathematics or anything impossible [depending on how rigorous one wants to apply restrictions on epistemological questions. But I got caught in his truth tables which I had seen but didn't recognise....

[aconceptandaconversation]

That kid talking about the University and whether or not it would still be “the university of Texas” without some parts should look into the difference between an “essence” and form. Also, a great addition would be “Matters of Fact” : and “Relations of Ideas”.
Thanks for sharing!

[yyBBaakk]

insightful, interactive and interesting lecture! thank you very much! hope to see a lecture on latter Wittgenstein and his language games. Thank you!

[zapakguy]

The paradox about the University of Texas is the same as stated in Ship of Theseus.

[ThePeaceableKingdom]

That's a pretty good stab at the impossible!

Sometimes I think a writer like Wittgenstein may be more fruitfully misunderstood than understood...

[rex]

I very much wish this was a full series