Wittgenstein His Life and Philosophy

If this runs, I can. Yeah. So, I can have those duplicated. All right, everybody seated?

Everybody get a program? There's a few programs left. Anybody need a program? Couple.

Oh, that's good. Two hands, two programs. There you are. Okay.

Luig Victenstein. Luther Victenstein is almost certainly although it's hard to prove these things. So everybody puts they hedge their bets almost certainly the most influential philosopher of the 20th century. How many people have ever heard of this guy?

Yeah, that's pretty good. That's pretty good. Yeah, cuz he's not generally well known. Um, one of the reasons he's not well known is he only published a single very slim book in his lifetime called the trackus which you have a a selection from in the inside page and we'll talk about that.

Uh, and from someone who has to do a lecture like this, you love a philosopher who's only published about 80 pages of material in his lifetime. That's great. He's the greatest philosopher ever. No.

Uh, he wrote a lot, but he only published very little because of his exacting standards. Fascinating life, fascinating man. For throughout the lecture, please keep in mind his early life because it's truly unique early life. He was born into the Victenstein family, which is to say, think of the Gates.

It'll be like being the son of Bill Gates. Probably the largest private fortune in Europe. Um, if not the largest, it as large as anybody else's, but probably the single largest private fortune in Europe. Larger than the Rothschilds, larger than most of the Nobel families, although a few of the noble families sort of beat them out.

Um this is a time when Vienna is the capital of the uh Hapsburg Empire. Um it is it is a world that is lost to us because it was destroyed in World War I and then destroyed even further in World War II. The AustroHungarian Empire as it's also called. Um he his world he's born in 1889 by the way.

His world was dying as he was growing up. Everything that he believed in, that he was raised with that he saw died. Many of his family members, the social structure he was raised in, the class that he was raised in, the first the empire and then the country that he was born into, all those ...