the transcendent or transcendental — Pussycat
That my will penetrates the world.
That my will is good or evil.
Therefore that good and evil are somehow connected with the meaning of the world.
The meaning of life, i.e. the meaning of the world, we can call God. (NB 11.6.16)
To believe in a God means to understand the question about the meaning of life.
To believe in a God means to see that the facts of the world are not the end of the matter.
To believe in God means to see that life has a meaning. (NB 8.7.16)
No judgement intended, but isn't this what theologians have been arguing for centuries? — Pussycat
So in other words, for Wittgenstein, without God, there is no meaning, there cannot be one, the world is meaningless without God. No God = no meaning, there is God = there is meaning, as simple as that. — Pussycat
And as long as the will cannot be transformed into actions - because these actions would then be facts — Pussycat
then we reach the conclusion that God's will cannot ever be shown in the world, one way or another. — Pussycat
God does not reveal himself in the world. (6.432)
One can do what one wills, but your are right, he actions would be facts. Wittgenstein says though that it is not a matter of the consequences of the act in the world. He places the value of the action in the act itself. (6.422) — Fooloso4
And furthermore, a meaning-giving act is something most godly, holy and divine (good willing) that brings about happiness - a hallowing, whereas a meaning-removing act something most ungodly and unholy (bad willing) that brings about unhappiness - a wallowing. — Pussycat
Yes, a wallowing of sorts... But, there's something to be said about wallowing, coming from a professional wallower. In that to wallow is to appreciate and prioritize or value what one does already have. The act of endowing meaning onto the world is in some sense solipsistic and egotistical. As if the ant or pig, which we step on or eat, didn't have a personal life of its own, which it might as well have. — Wallows
Wittgenstein — Wittgenstein
I think I summed up my position on philosophy when I said: philosophy ought really to be written only as a form of poetry (CV 24).
But we can still have certainty in the knowledge of mathematics and science according to logical positivists. — Wittgenstein
This movement has died but it is nevertheless an intrepretion of tractatus. — Wittgenstein
The limits of the world are anything other than these two, as they go into the the region beyond logic and language, such as ethics and metaphysics. — Wittgenstein
But this is only possible if we regard objects as something we experience. — Wittgenstein
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