Wittgenstein, Kierkegaard and the Unspeakable

Location

CSU 285

Start Date

25-4-2005 3:15 PM

End Date

25-4-2005 5:30 PM

Student's Major

Philosophy

Student's College

Arts and Humanities

Mentor's Name

Dick Liebenforfer

Mentor's Department

Philosophy

Mentor's College

Arts and Humanities

Description

Soren Kierkegaard and Ludwig Wittgenstein have long been thought of as philosophers with little, if anything in common. There are but a handful of contemporary philosophers who have provided links between works by Kierkegaard and works by Wittgenstein; however no one has, at least explicitly, provided the following link I intend to show in this paper. I will show Kierkegaard's Fear and Trembling and Wittgenstein's Tractatus Logico Philosophicus have a remarkably common theme in each. The theme is the ability of one to communicate, or understand the unspeakable, that which remains beyond the limits of language. Both Philosophers have a unique approach to arriving at this conclusion, Kierkegaard through religion and Wittgenstein through logic, but each reaches a point in which a person must remain silent.

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Apr 25th, 3:15 PM Apr 25th, 5:30 PM

Wittgenstein, Kierkegaard and the Unspeakable

CSU 285

Soren Kierkegaard and Ludwig Wittgenstein have long been thought of as philosophers with little, if anything in common. There are but a handful of contemporary philosophers who have provided links between works by Kierkegaard and works by Wittgenstein; however no one has, at least explicitly, provided the following link I intend to show in this paper. I will show Kierkegaard's Fear and Trembling and Wittgenstein's Tractatus Logico Philosophicus have a remarkably common theme in each. The theme is the ability of one to communicate, or understand the unspeakable, that which remains beyond the limits of language. Both Philosophers have a unique approach to arriving at this conclusion, Kierkegaard through religion and Wittgenstein through logic, but each reaches a point in which a person must remain silent.