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Nov 13, 2015 · Either way, there is nothing to say. Thus we probably ought to follow Wittgenstein’s advice and simply “be silent.” (l have obviously not followed his advice.) _____ Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus, 1922, trans. C.K. Ogden (London: Routledge & Kegan Paul). Originally published as “Logisch-Philosophische Abhandlung”, in Annalen der ...
Wittgenstein states that “the desire to say something about the ultimate meaning of life (…) is a document of tendency in the human mind which I personally cannot help respecting deeply and I would not for my life ridicule it”.16 To be honest this remark concerns ethics, but in its context applies to religion as well. 11 Tractatus, § 4.2.
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- Critique, Persuasion, Obedience
- Interpreting The Qurʾan? Or Listening to It?
- Concluding Thoughts
In what follows I try to think about religious tradition through Wittgenstein's writings. My aim is not to provide an account of his view of religion, and still less to make a contribution to anthropological theory. It is, in the most banal sense, an exercise in thinking. I turn to his philosophy to help me clarify some ideas about what is called “...
The epistemological as well as political criticism of religion is essential to the credibility of secularism as an ideology. Critics point to the virtual impossibility of proving God's existence in the Age of Science, and consequently argue for the rejection of religious authority in political and social matters that so easily leads to disorder and...
What happens if the members of a particular religious tradition come to see serious contradictions or absurdities in divine discourse? One concern of believers is that a collapse of faith will follow: if one is not to abandon the tradition altogether one must find ways of translating what appears to be absurd or contradictory into something that is...
Wittgenstein, although born and baptized a Catholic, was not “religious,” and yet he has a more provocative understanding of what being a believer might entail than have many apologists and critics. Thus he writes, The crucial point that Wittgenstein makes here is neither that the apparent contradictions and absurdities in scriptural accounts shoul...
- Talal Asad
- 2020
Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus, translated by F. P. Ramsey and edited by C. K. Ogden, Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner & Co., 1922. The original used a lower-case 'v' for the logical or operator; it has been replaced with the correct '∨' character. Every effort has been made to replicate the original text as faithfully as possible.
what Wittgenstein means by the point of the book being ethical. I defend that the ethical point and significance of the Tractatus is to delimit the ethical and, thereb. , show or make manifest what it is to live a good ethical life. Second, I study how the correct method of philosophy propounded by the Tractatus co.
Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus. The Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus (widely abbreviated and cited as TLP) is the only book-length philosophical work by the Austrian philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein that was published during his lifetime. The project had a broad goal: to identify the relationship between language and reality, and to define the ...
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Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus 6.52 (English) 6.52. We feel that even if all possible scientific questions be asnwered, the problems of life have still not been touched at all. Of course there is then no question left, and just this is the answer. 6.521. The solution of the problem of life is seen in the vanishing of this problem.
