This book considers the hypothesis that the Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus can be interpreted from a mystical point of view. Atkinson elucidates Wittgenstein's thoughts on the mystical as they pertain to a number of topics such as, God, the meaning of life, reality, the eternal and the solipsistic self.
The aim of this book is to consider what reasonably follows from the hypothesis that the Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus can be interpreted from a mystical point of view. Atkinson intends to elucidate Wittgenstein's thoughts on the mystical in his early writings as they pertain to a number of topics such as, God, the meaning of life, reality, the eternal and the solipsistic self.
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Chapter 1: Self-subsistence and Method
Chapter 2: What cannot be put into Words, Method and Mysticism
Chapter 3: Language, Method and Mysticism
Chapter 4: Showing and Wittgenstein's Two Objections to Russell's
Theory of Types
Chapter 5: Two Senses of Showing
Chapter 6: The Mystical and Showing
Chapter 7: Time and The Mystical
Chapter 8: Mysticism and the Problems of Philosophy
Chapter 9: Nonsense and Two Interpretations of the Tractatus
Chapter 10: Metaphysics and the Mystical
Chapter 11: The Mystical and the Meaning of Life
Conclusion: Silence
Bibliography
Index