Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus by Ludwig Wittgenstein

First published in the year 1921, the present book ‘Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus’ by Ludwig Wittgenstein seeks to ground his philosophy of action. The historical significance of Tractatus is for its influence on the philosophers of logical empiricism, by providing them with a framework for a philosophy of science, and hence engineering, Wittgenstein actually wrote it as a work on ethics.