Wittgenstein

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I just purchased Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus, has anyone read or purchased this book?

Does anyone like Wittgenstein?

I haven't read it, I have only heard the name. I think he once was popular amongst the logical positivists until they ended up viewing him as a mystic. Don't take my word on that though.

I love Wittgenstein. Although, he abandoned most of the ideas that he presented in the Tractatus and came up with a whole new system of philosophy. In the Tractatus he attempts to postulate a general rule of a proposition, and even quit doing philosophy after he wrote it as he believed that he solved all the problems in philosophy by showing that philosophy problems were neither true nor false, but that they were non-sensical, that they only arose from the misunderstanding of how language works.

But, after a few years and conversations with others, he saw that his approach was all wrong and he began work on what is commonly known as his second system of philosophy which is represented mainly in the books "Philosophical Investigations II" and "On Certainty". The tractatus has some awesome one-liners, but Wittgenstein largely discarded most of the ideas in that book and wrote PI II largely to correct what he thought was a wrong turn in theorizing. I would highly recommend that you read PI II and On Certainty, although they are difficult to understand as Wittgenstein did not write in any form or order, he wrote strictly in aphorisms in a haphazard manner, you have to put it all together to make sense of it all.