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WITTGENSTEIN, LANGUAGE, AND POWER A Conversation With Ruper Read

Political Philosophy Podcast

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The Narrative of Weggenstein's Philosophy

The Tractatus is thought of as in some ways a work of formal logic. But the Tractatus also from the beginning was, as well as that, was a sort of very poetic work. And crucially was a work that's in its very method. Not the conclusions he came to, not the theories he held to, but the methods which he thought philosophy should be pursued by way of. The remarks that I think you were seeking to quote from Weggenstein, from the preface, runs, what can be said at all can be said clearly, and where everyone cannot speak, there are one must be silent.

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