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Considerações acerca do místico, da inefabilidade e do silêncio como elementos de uma filosofia da religião no Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus

2024; Sociedade Hegel Brasileira; Volume: 15; Issue: 1 Linguagem: Inglês

10.36592/opiniaofilosofica.v15n1.1121

2178-1176

Rodrigo Pedro Mella Parmeggiani,

Linguistics and Education Research

The purpose of this article is to consider the mystical, the ineffability and the silence in Ludwig Wittgenstein’s Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus, with a view to identifying a possible philosophy of religion. To this end, the picture theory is first presented, which serves as a fundamental presupposition for understanding the unfolding of this work. The picture theory seeks to elucidate the nature of propositions. A proposition is constituted as a picture of a possible state of affairs, i.e. a proposition projects its meaning and provides V or F truth conditions. Secondly, the limits of propositionality are presented, namely tautologies and contradictions, as well as transgressions of the limits of what can be said, namely nonsenses or pseudo-propositions. Finally, based on these theoretical presuppositions, the unfolding of Wittgenstein’s theses on the picture theory at the level of the mystical is presented. For Wittgenstein, the mystical refers to the inexpressible. The ineffability of certain themes such as logic, ethics, aesthetics and God leads to a prudent silent contemplation, i.e. of what cannot be said but is shown. It is precisely in the realm of the mystical that we can find elements of a philosophy of religion in the Tractatus.