Nonsense and the Ineffable: Re-reading the Ethical Standpoint in Wittgenstein’s Tractatus

The paper examines the ethical standpoint of the Tractatus as it has been reconstructed by Cora Diamond (“the austere view”) and gives an account of some of the criticism this reconstruction has received in the work of P. M. S. Hacker and Meredith Williams (“the standard view”). The second half of t...

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Main Author: Géza Kállay
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Nordic Wittgenstein Society 2012-11-01
Series:Nordic Wittgenstein Review
Online Access:http://www.nordicwittgensteinreview.com/article/view/67