Review of 'Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus' on 'Goodreads'
4 stars
Wrong in a respectable way.
Right in an audacious way:
"The object of philosophy is the logical clarification of thoughts.
Philosophy is not a theory but an activity.
A philosophical work consists essentially of elucidations."
"I give no sources because it is indifferent
to me whether what I have thought has
already been thought before me by another."
"In the world everything is as it is
and happens as it does happen. In it there is no value
—and if there were, it would be of no value."
"It is clear that ethics cannot be expressed.
Ethics are transcendental.
(Ethics and æsthetics are one.)"
"Death is not an event of life. Death is not lived through.
If by eternity is understood not endless temporal duration
but timelessness, then he lives eternally who lives in the present.
Our life is endless in the way that our visual field is without
limit" …
Wrong in a respectable way.
Right in an audacious way:
"The object of philosophy is the logical clarification of thoughts.
Philosophy is not a theory but an activity.
A philosophical work consists essentially of elucidations."
"I give no sources because it is indifferent
to me whether what I have thought has
already been thought before me by another."
"In the world everything is as it is
and happens as it does happen. In it there is no value
—and if there were, it would be of no value."
"It is clear that ethics cannot be expressed.
Ethics are transcendental.
(Ethics and æsthetics are one.)"
"Death is not an event of life. Death is not lived through.
If by eternity is understood not endless temporal duration
but timelessness, then he lives eternally who lives in the present.
Our life is endless in the way that our visual field is without
limit"
"There is indeed the inexpressible.
This shows itself; it is the mystical."
"Whereof one cannot speak, thereof one must be silent."