Wittgenstein

Ludwig Wittgenstein is probably the most famous and influential philosopher of the Twentieth Century. But his philosophy is mysterious and fiendishly difficult to understand. This video tells the story of Wittgenstein's life and his philosophical ideas.

00:00 - intro
00:22 - Wittgenstein’s life
04:41 - Philosophical background
06:39 - Russell’s approach to philosophy
08:29 - War and the Tractatus
10:49 - Philosophy in the Tractatus
12:30 - Meaning and Meaninglessness
14:01 - The purpose of philosophy
14:38 - Giving up philosophy
15:54 - Return to philosophy
17:01 - Philosophical Investigations
19:01 - WW2 and death

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[morgoth]

Hi Mark, just wanted to say your work is insane - it makes me feel like I'll never get to your level. I've been reading your paper "Recent Work in Relevant Logic" for my essay and my skill level and background knowledge is so low that I can barely understand it. I have experience with papers in like epistemology and ethics but logic is a different beast altogether
Hugely underrated channel btw

[chasekanipe]

Thank you for making a more in-depth video.

[santacruzman]

Sir,

Your channel is extremely high quality and stands out highly amongst the others I have seen recently. Your treatment of Wittgenstein is absolutely impressive. Your efforts are noticed. Kudo's my fellow student of life!

[philosophyversuslogic]

Thank you for this wonderful video! Wittgenstein went to war. I suppose it might happen to me these days living in Ukraine. So, reading Wittgenstein's diaries is helpful.
However, for me the favourite - Bertrund Russell is. The most. The best.

[giantessmaria]

brain melted! thanks! now i must go relearn my first 67 years of life🤔😵‍💫

[frankavocado]

Impressive, getting all that down to 21:05. 

I wouldn't necessarily characterise therapy as 'relaxing'. On the contrary, it can be highly difficult and force a lot of resistance from 'patients'. I imagine this sense of therapy probably fits more with Wittgenstein's 'Investigations' project of untangling the ways in which ordinary language can trap individuals in delusions of their own making. 

I think the Tractatus ends on a paradox/cliffhanger - the philosophical equivalent of Michael Caine on the bus, on the cliff edge, at the end of 'The Italian Job', saying: "Hang on a minute, lads. I've got a great idea." If it really was nonsense then the experience of reading it couldn't have helped much. It's probably more that logic makes sense, but not so much as a theory of meaning.

[eliad]

This is a wonderful video, thanks for this.

[crisgon]

Great video man. Very rigorous and honest presentation on Wittgenstein. I can tell you truly understand the subject.

Here are my two cents when it comes to Wittgenstein's believe that philosophy is a form of therapy that helps the mind. Through Dave Ramsey Wittgenstein met and wrestled more with William James' pragmatism. James talks about how it was philosophy that helped him get out of a pessimistic rut and philosophy can't answer the meaningful questions but it can help ask the right questions. If one is stuck they just need to look at the question and realize that as Wittgenstein writes "The solution of the problem of life is seen in the vanishing of the problem". It's when the problem is no longer a problem it will appear solved or no longer important.

[acbatenburg]

Very nice to know more about the life of Wittgenstein. Context gives meaning.

[ubermenschonsteroids]

Great video!! hope you continue making a video of this sort

[top]

In 1:50 you show a picture from Wittgensteins School, there are two persons marked. Wittgenstein to the left and Adolf Hitler to the right.

Just wanted to mention this. How or if they influenced each other is very controversal but its interesting to think about it.

[desfurria]

Philosophy is like therapy for the soul, whether it makes you better is a different question. Would that mean, that the world we see is fictitious, and limited by our inner language in a Kantian way?

[lunct]

I don’t quite understand the mystical element of his philosophy. What in his philosophy is mystical?

[asamatteroflaw]

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[Opposite]

13:25
This is something I don’t really understand.

I would say that a picture can be used as a map to represent a fact or it could be used as a blueprint for the construction of a fact. If the picture is a blueprint, then it is a value.

Values are then not another fact in the external world outside the mind but instead a typ of picture which shows how someone would want the world to be like.

[TousifAnaam]

You don't understand Wittgenstein.

[ubermenschonsteroids]

Great video!! hope you continue making a video of this sort