Wittgenstein's Tractatus as a Work of Initiation

Autores/as

  • Paulo Roberto Margutti Pinto

Resumen

This article constitutes a résumé of the comprehensive interpretation of the Tractatus presented in my book Initiation into Silence, published in 1998. It attempts to show that Wittgenstein.s text is in fact a work of initiation in the sense that it expresses an experience involving the complementarity between “dying” and “being reborn”. The central idea is that the critique of language, when taken to its ultimate consequences, leads to the suicide of philosophical discourse (death), opening in this way the path for a logical conceptual clarification which culminates in a silent contemplation of the meaning of life (rebirth).

Key words: Wittgenstein, Tractatus, Logic, Critique of language, Ethics, Mysticism.

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Publicado

2021-06-03

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PINTO, P. R. M. Wittgenstein’s Tractatus as a Work of Initiation. Filosofia Unisinos / Unisinos Journal of Philosophy, São Leopoldo, v. 5, n. 8, p. 81–104, 2021. Disponível em: https://revistas.unisinos.br/index.php/filosofia/article/view/6540. Acesso em: 6 may. 2025.