[C] [Wittrs] Tractatus as End-Metaphysics
- From: Sean Wilson <whoooo26505@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: wittrsamr@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Thu, 14 Jan 2010 10:46:43 -0800 (PST)
... just a short comment here.
Have you noticed that one of the things that is striking about the Tractatus is
that it does to metaphysics what the Investigations do to theories? That is,
just as the Investigations present a sort of end-theory (as I have described
it), the Tractatus presents a sort of end-metaphysic. I mean, we all know that
the Tractatus is as metaphysical as anything can be. But what it really seems
to do is PRESCRIBE THE CORRECT METAPHYSICS. What it purports to do is tell one
to stop engaging in certain kinds of metaphysical indulgences and to simply
adopt the conceptions of world (a rich conception of "groups" and "shuffle,"
as CJ has prior noted), will, visual field, language as a depiction -- all
under the rubric of a logical system. And, as I have said, to keep
certain devout indulgences in a kind of purgatory.
Importantly, if this is not done, the other views are "proven" to be incorrect.
The work indulges metaphysics to cleanse it and do away with anything other
than the way of the end-metaphysic.
And so what Wittgenstein does in the Tractatus is present the LAST METAPHYSIC.
The only right way to do metaphysics. I mean, the fact that logic is wrapped up
and presented through the medium of connected, numbered and gnomic utterances
(like Tolstoy's Gospel in Brief) is completely ingenious. It is as if Moses
were to come and to settle all matters regarding logic.
To say that Wittgenstein contradicts himself is to say that one has a small
mind. To say, instead, that he is rich is only to say that you have just
entered in the matter.
Yours amazed.
Dr. Sean Wilson, Esq.
Assistant Professor
Wright State University
Personal Website: http://seanwilson.org
SSRN papers: http://ssrn.com/author=596860
Discussion Group: http://seanwilson.org/wittgenstein.discussion.html
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