TRACTATUS LOGICO-PHILOSOPHICUS

considerations on the Ethics in the early Wittgenstein

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https://doi.org/10.26512/pl.v11i23.43928

Keywords:

Wittgenstein. Tractatus. Life. Ethics.

Abstract

This work seeks to approach the subject of ethics, present in the writings of the “first” Wittgenstein, in a non-exhaustive way. Connecting the Tractatus Logico-philosophicus (1921) with the Conference on Ethics (1964), we tried to classify the ethical “propositions”, in contrast with the meaningful propositions, in order to approach the unspeakability of ethics, as well as to discuss its activity. It was from a brief encounter with Stoicism that the relation between volition and world gained more expressive contours, as well as the relation between the happy life as tranquility of the soul and the unhappy life as the "problematic" that has to disappear. It is possible to understand the Tractatus as an ethical act in view of a happy life, thus illuminating the last aphorisms, as well as the invitation to silence, with the imperative to be silent.

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Author Biography

Eduardo Augusto Lopes Soares, Universidade de Brasília

Graduado em Filosofia pela Universidade de Brasília - UnB.

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WITTGENSTEIN, Ludwig. Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus. Trad. Luiz Henrique Lopes dos Santos, 3ª ed. São Paulo. Editora Edusp, 2017.

Published

2022-12-19

How to Cite

Lopes Soares, E. A. (2022). TRACTATUS LOGICO-PHILOSOPHICUS: considerations on the Ethics in the early Wittgenstein. PÓLEMOS – Revista De Estudantes De Filosofia Da Universidade De Brasília, 11(23), 25–40. https://doi.org/10.26512/pl.v11i23.43928

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