Nonsense and the Ineffable: Re-reading the Ethical Standpoint in Wittgenstein’s Tractatus
The paper examines the ethical standpoint of the Tractatus as it has been reconstructed by Cora Diamond (“the austere view”) and gives an account of some of the criticism this reconstruction has received in the work of P. M. S. Hacker and Meredith Williams (“the standard view”). The second half of t...
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| Language: | English |
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Nordic Wittgenstein Society
2012-11-01
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| Series: | Nordic Wittgenstein Review |
| Online Access: | http://www.nordicwittgensteinreview.com/article/view/67 |
| Summary: | The paper examines the ethical standpoint of the Tractatus as it has been reconstructed by Cora Diamond (“the austere view”) and gives an account of some of the criticism this reconstruction has received in the work of P. M. S. Hacker and Meredith Williams (“the standard view”). The second half of the paper tries to argue that the austere and the standard views rather complement each other if we recognize “two I’-s” in the Tractatus and if it is supposed that there is a “3rd person” and “1st person” perspective which are both voiced on its pages. |
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| ISSN: | 2194-6825 2242-248X |