Wittgenstein's Tractatus

Wittgenstein's Tractatus is one of the most baffling, mysterious, brilliant, and difficult works of philosophy ever written. But the main lines of thought are relatively simple to understand. I'm going to explain them in this video. You can support the channel and help it grow by contributing on my Ko-fi page: https://ko-fi.com/atticphilosophy 00:00 - Intro 00:42 - The Tractatus 02:04 - Metaphysics: States of Affairs 05:05 - The Picture Theory 09:03 - Meaning and Nonsense 11:26 - Saying vs Showing 12:51 - The purpose of philosophy 14:01 - The Empiricist Interpretation 16:16 - Logical Positivism 17:44 - The Tractatus’s Influence If there’s a topic you’d like to see covered, leave me a comment below. Links: My academic philosophy page: http://markjago.net My book What Truth Is: http://bit.ly/JagoTruth Most of my publications are available freely here: https://philpapers.org/s/Mark%20Jago Get in touch on Social media! Twitter:   / philosophyattic   #Wittgenstein #philosophy