On Certainty

Informationen zum Autor Ludwig Wittgenstein (1889-1951) was born in Austria and studied at Cambridge under Bertrand Russell. He volunteered to serve in the Austrian army at the outbreak of World War I, and in 1918 was captured and sent to a prison camp in Italy, where he finished his masterpiece, Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus , one of the most important philosophical works of all time. After the war Wittgenstein eventually returned to Cambridge to teach. Klappentext The volume is full of thought-provoking insight which will prove a stimulus both to further study and to scholarly disagreement. Zusammenfassung Written over the last 18 months of his life and inspired by his interest in G. E. Moore's defense of common sense! this much discussed volume collects Wittgenstein's reflections on knowledge and certainty! on what it is to know a proposition for sure.

Product details

• Authors: Ludwig Wittgenstein
• Assisted by: Gertrude E. M. Anscombe (Editor), Georg H. von Wright (Editor), Georg Henrik von Wright (Editor)
• Publisher: Harper Perennial USA
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 06.09.1972
• EAN: 9780061316869
• ISBN: 978-0-06-131686-9
• No. of pages: 192
• Dimensions: 135 mm x 203 mm x 11 mm
• Series: Harper Torchbooks; Harper Perennial Modern Thought; Harper Torchbooks
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Religion/theology; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Philosophy: general, reference works; HISTORY: United States / 20th Century, SCIENCE: Life Sciences / General, PHILOSOPHY: MODERN, PHILOSOPHY: History & Surveys / Modern, PHILOSOPHY: Individual Philosophers *, HISTORY: Modern / 21st Century, PHILOSOPHY: History & Surveys / Ancient & Classical, PHILOSOPHY: Ethics & Moral Philosophy, PHILOSOPHY: Language, HISTORY: Modern / 20th Century / Holocaust