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L. Wittgensteino "Užrašų knygelių" ištraukose svarstomi Dievo, žmogaus, pasaulio, valios, kūno, tikėjimo, mąstymo, gyvenimo tikslo, etikos, estetikos klausimai. Gyvenimo prasmė, t. y. pasaulio prasmė pavadinama Dievu. Pasaulis nepriklauso nuo žmogaus valios. Gyvenimo problemos sprendimas yra šios problemos išnykimas. Būties tikslą išpildo tas, kuriam nereikalingas joks kitas tikslas, išskyrus patį gyvenimą. Tikėti Dievą reiškia suprasti klausimą apie gyvenimo prasmę, suvokti, kad pasaulio faktas dar nėra visa tikrovė, matyti, kad gyvenimas turi prasmę. Mirtis nėra gyvenimo įvykis, ji nėra pasaulio faktas. Etika neaiškina pasaulio, ji turi būti pasaulio sąlyga, kaip ir logika. Etika ir estetika yra viena. Etika yra transcendentali. Valia yra subjekto nuostata pasaulio atžvilgiu. Valios aktas yra ne veikimo priežastis, bet pats veiksmas, jis nėra patyrimas. Visas patyrimas yra pasaulis, ir jam nereikalingas subjektas. Žmogaus kūnas yra pasaulio dalis tarp kitų pasaulio dalių (gyvūnų, augalų, daiktų ir t. t.). Menas yra išraiška, geras meno kūrinys yra baigta išraiška.

"Written in code under constant threat of battle, Wittgenstein's searing and illuminating diaries finally emerge in this first-ever English translation. During the pandemic, Marjorie Perloff, one of our foremost scholars of global literature, found her mind ineluctably drawn to the profound commentary on life and death in the wartime diaries of eminent philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein (1889-1951). Upon learning that these notebooks, which richly contextualize the early stages of his magnum opus, the Tractatus-Logico-Philosophicus, had never before been published in English, the Viennese-born Perloff determinedly set about translating them. Beginning with the anxious summer of 1914, this historic, en-face edition presents the first-person recollections of a foot soldier in the Austrian Army, fresh from his days as a philosophy student at Cambridge, who must grapple with the hazing of his fellow soldiers, the stirrings of a forbidden sexuality, and the formation of an explosive analytical philosophy that seemed to draw meaning from his endless brushes with death. Much like Tolstoy's The Gospel in Brief, Private Notebooks takes us on a personal journey to discovery as it augments our knowledge of Wittgenstein himself"--

For Wittgenstein mathematics is a human activity characterizing ways of seeing conceptual possibilities and empirical situations, proof and logical methods central to its progress. Sentences exhibit differing 'aspects', or dimensions of meaning, projecting mathematical 'realities'. Mathematics is an activity of constructing standpoints on equalities and differences of these. Wittgenstein's Later Philosophy of Mathematics (1934-1951) grew from his Early (1912-1921) and Middle (1929-33) philosophies, a dialectical path reconstructed here partly as a response to the limitative results of Gödel and Turing.

Cover; Title page; Copyright page; Contents; Acknowledgments; 1: Introduction: The Content of a Lecture on Ethics; I; II; III; 2: Established Text of the Lecture: MS 139b Normalized; 3: The Manuscripts of a Lecture on Ethics; 4: Description of the Manuscripts; 5: Symbols Used in the Diplomatic Transcriptions; 6: Proto-Draft: Diplomatic Transcription; 7: MS 139a: Diplomatic Transcription; 8: MS 139b: Diplomatic Transcription; 9: TS 207: Diplomatic Transcription; References; Index.