Ludwig Wittgenstein: A Mind on Fire
My rule of thumb summary of Wittgenstein: If you can spend an entire book on the meaning of a concept (IE Truth-with-a-capital-T, The meaning of life) then you may be confusing an artifact of grammar and language with something that exists in actual reality.<p>In other words, just because you can construct a correct sentence with a word doesn&#x27;t mean it actually makes sense. Statements can be true or false, but can a heart be true? My understanding is the Tractatus was meant to &quot;end philosophy&quot; by implying that most of philosophy arises from the confusion between these grammatical artifacts and reality.<p>I read a lot of philosophy in my 20s, but I think only Marcus Aurelius and Wittgenstein actual made me into a better, happier person.