An Illustrated Brief History of Western Philosophy, ch. 22

This final chapter takes up Wittgenstein. Wittgenstein seemed most concerned about the role of philosophy in thought and he used language as his way of describing that relationship. Wittgenstein downplayed the importance of philosophy. An interesting man, he gave away a fortune that made him one of the richest people in Europe and was content teaching. He is committed to uncertainty and is interested in grammar/language. I was surprised to find that he was attempting to answer the same questions that John Henry Newman was seeking to answer and came to conclusions near Kierkegaard (though apparently atheist). I would be interested in reading his works.