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Gardner, Primary School teacher, architect, engineer, war hero,

millionaire who gave away all his money, hospital porter and arguably the most

significant philosopher of the 20th century.

Ludwig Wittgenstein was born in Vienna in 1889, the youngest child of a wealthy steel

magnet.

He moved to Cambridge in Cambridge in

to Cambridge and Russell and to pursue his interest in logic.

Russell would write the forward to the Tractatus Logico Philosophagus,

the only philosophy book Vidconstein published in his lifetime,

which was completed in the trenches of World War I.

The Tractatus, Wittgenstein initially believed, solved all the fundamental problems of philosophy.

But by the time he returned to Cambridge in 1929, he was having second thoughts.

His legendary charisma, his frenetic mental energy, his beguiling prose, his deep originality,

all helped ensure that a new generation of disciples

would absorb, adopt and transmit his ideas.

Barry Smith is a Wittgenstein expert at Birkbeck College.

Barry Smith, welcome to Philosophy Byts.

Hello.

We're talking today about Ludwig Wittgenstein's view of what philosophy is.

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