CEU Electronic Theses and Dissertations, 2017
| Author | Khorashadi, Arash |
|---|---|
| Title | On the edge of an Abyss:Wittgenstein On Religious Expressions |
| Summary | In my thesis, I pursue one goal and it relies, among other things, on one assumption: Wittgenstein’s thoughts concerning language provided him with seeing the key to philosophical dichotomies by dissolving them; In his first period of his thought, in TLP, Wittgenstein implies that the solution to the ‘riddles’ is in vanishing them by showing that they either are senseless or nonsense. In his later thought, however Wittgenstein undermined the riddles (and dichotomies) in his later thought rather by giving a conceptual analysis of the use of the words on each side of the supposed dichotomies and showing that, at least in many cases, there is no clear-cut distinction at all. If so, then I will argue how Wittgenstein does not argue for, or against, any side of the supposed dichotomy between ‘faith’ and ‘reason’. Rather, he undermines the very distinction at stake. I take this assumption as a leading theme in understanding Wittgenstein’s position concerning the religious belief and their expression in both, his early, and later periods. |
| Supervisor | Hanoch Ben-Yami |
| Department | Philosophy MA |
| Full text | https://www.etd.ceu.edu/2017/khorashadi_arash.pdf |
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