Ludwig, the youngest of eight children, has three-quarters of Jewish descent and became a British citizen after the Nazi annexed Austria.
Wittgenstein was educated at home with his brothers and sisters since childhood, but the results of family education can not meet the acceptance standards of ordinary high schools. Until 1903, after passing the entrance examination, I went to a high school in Linz, where I was a classmate of Adolf Hitler. However, there is no conclusive evidence that these two important people have had any in-depth contact. I once thought about suicide. Wittgenstein's middle school grades are not good, and most of them are lower-middle level. After three years of unhappiness, he left here with the failure of the college entrance examination.
Ludwig, a teenager, likes machinery and technology. 10, he made a simple and practical sewing machine. His initial ambition was physics, and he was eager to learn from the famous physicist Boltzmann. However, Boltzmann committed suicide in 1906, which destroyed Wittgenstein's hope.
Later Wittgenstein decided to become an engineer. 1906 Wittgenstein went to Berlin to study mechanical engineering. 65438-0908 entered Victoria University in Manchester, England, and studied for a degree in aerodynamics of aviation engineering. During this period, in order to thoroughly understand the principle of propeller, Wittgenstein read the Principles of Mathematics written by Bertrand Russell and Whitehead and the Basis of Arithmetic written by Gottlob Frege.
19 1 1 After visiting Frege in the summer of, Wittgenstein followed the recommendation of logicians and went to Trinity College, Cambridge University, England to study under Russell, who later became a student and friend of British philosopher Russell. Russell called this acquaintance "one of the most exciting intellectual adventures" in his life.
After World War I, Wittgenstein, who could have been exempted from military service, actively joined the army and completed the first draft of On Logical Philosophy as a volunteer on the battlefield, which marked the linguistic turn of the so-called philosophy. Many years later, he thought that the so-called philosophical problem had been solved, so he went to the southern mountainous area of Austria with aristocratic enthusiasm, joined the Austrian school reform movement advocated by Gluck and became a primary school teacher.
Wittgenstein, who pursues idealism, lives an ascetic life here and is full of enthusiasm for students. However, he was regarded as a "madman" by his parents who could not understand him. They turned down the eccentric guy's request to adopt one or two students. 1926, Wittgenstein, who proved to be always incompatible with adults, left the "vulgar and stupid southern peasant" and ended his position as a rural teacher.
When the primary school teacher "failed", Wittgenstein first worked as a gardener's assistant in a monastery for a while. Later, her sister Margaret was worried about his mental state and wanted to ask her to help design and build a mansion of her own. This building, which was later used as the Bulgarian embassy, gave Wittgenstein the identity of an architect.
1927, Wittgenstein got to know the members of the Vienna Group based on the theory of logical philosophy and was invited to participate in some activities. He was associated with members such as Schrick and weismann, but Wittgenstein refused to join their circle.
1928 In the spring, Wittgenstein listened to a lecture by mathematician Brouwer in Vienna.
1929, Wittgenstein returned to Cambridge, passed the doctoral defense of On Logical Philosophy reviewed by Russell and G.E. Moore, and stayed at Trinity College to teach philosophy. 1939, Wittgenstein succeeded Moore as a professor of philosophy.
1947, Wittgenstein, who firmly believed that "professor of philosophy" was "an absurd job", resigned from Cambridge to concentrate on thinking and writing.
On April 29th, Wittgenstein died of prostate cancer at the home of his friend Dr. Edward Bevan. His last words before he died were "Tell them I had a good time". Norman Malcolm described this sentence as "a strange and moving word". A Catholic funeral was held for Wittgenstein in the Teachers Cemetery of Cambridge University. Du Rui later said that he had been considering whether it was appropriate to arrange the funeral in this way.
After his death, his disciples Anscombe and Rashris published On Logical Philosophy, which is considered to have guided the new trend of language philosophy.
Wittgenstein's life is legendary, and Russell called it "the perfect model of genius": enthusiasm, profundity, passion and dominance.