Document Type
Honors Project
Abstract
This thesis sketches an interpretation of Wittgenstein’s Tractatus centering on his treatment of necessity and normativity. The purpose is to unite Wittgenstein’s account of logic and language with his brief remarks on ethics by stressing the transcendental nature of each. Wittgenstein believes that both logic and ethics give necessary preconditions for the existence of language and the world, and because these conditions are necessary, neither logic nor ethics can be normative. I conclude by erasing the standard line drawn between his philosophy and his ethics, and redrawing it between the philosophical and artistic presentations of his thought, the latter being what remains after the nonsensical status of the work is recognized.
Recommended Citation
Taylor, Gregory P., "One Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus: Necessity and Normativity" (2007). Philosophy Honors Projects. 1.
https://digitalcommons.macalester.edu/phil_honors/1
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