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Author: James R Atkinson

The Mystical in Wittgenstein s Early Writings Studies in Philosophy 1st Table of contents:

Part I: Context and Foundations

• Chapter 1: Intellectual Genesis: Influences on the Early Wittgenstein
  • 1.1 Schopenhauer and Pessimistic Idealism: The Will and the World.
  • 1.2 Hertz and the Picture Theory of Scientific Models.
  • 1.3 Frege and Russell: Logicism and the Foundations of Language.
  • 1.4 Leo Tolstoy and Religious/Ethical Impulses.
  • 1.5 Early Ethical Concerns and the Problem of Value.
• Chapter 2: The Core Project of the Tractatus: Logic and the Limits of Language
  • 2.1 The Picture Theory of Language: Propositions and States of Affairs.
  • 2.2 The Distinction Between "Saying" and "Showing."
  • 2.3 The Limits of Language and the World.
  • 2.4 Tautologies, Contradictions, and the Meaningless.
  • 2.5 The Role of Silence (TLP 7).

Part II: Unveiling the Mystical Dimensions

• Chapter 3: The World, The Self, and Solipsism (TLP 5.6-5.641)
  • 3.1 The Subject, the Limit of the World, not Part of It.
  • 3.2 Solipsism and the Reality that Cannot Be Spoken.
  • 3.3 The "Metaphysical Subject" and its Disappearance.
  • 3.4 The Eye, the Visual Field, and the Limit of Observation.
• Chapter 4: Ethics and Aesthetics as Transcendent (TLP 6.4-6.423)
  • 4.1 Ethics as Transcendent: Its Unspeakable Nature.
  • 4.2 The Problem of Value in a World of Facts.
  • 4.3 The Sense of Life: Happiness, Good, and Evil.
  • 4.4 Aesthetics and the Feeling of the World: Beauty and Purpose.
• Chapter 5: God, Fate, and the Riddle of Existence (TLP 6.43-6.44)
  • 5.1 God as the Meaning of the World, not in the World.
  • 5.2 The Feeling of the World as a Limited Whole: Das Mystische.
  • 5.3 The Riddle of Existence and Its Disappearance.
  • 5.4 Fatalism and the Acceptance of Destiny.
• Chapter 6: The Tractarian Ladder and its Aftermath (TLP 6.54)
  • 6.1 The Nature of the Tractatus's Propositions: Nonsense with a Purpose.
  • 6.2 The "Ladder" Metaphor: Ascending to See the World Rightly.
  • 6.3 The Necessity of "Throwing Away" the Ladder.
  • 6.4 The Inexpressibility of the Insights Gained.

Part III: Interpretations and Implications

• Chapter 7: Scholarly Debates on Wittgenstein's Mysticism
  • 7.1 The Positivist Reading: Dismissing the Mystical.
  • 7.2 The Esoteric Reading: Embracing the Unsayable.
  • 7.3 The Therapeutic Reading: Dissolving Philosophical Problems.
  • 7.4 Mysticism as a Methodological Outcome, Not a Doctrine.
  • 7.5 Critiques and Counter-Arguments to Various Interpretations.
• Chapter 8: The Mystical in the Notebooks and Early Letters
  • 8.1 Tracing the Development of Mystical Themes Before the Tractatus.
  • 8.2 Personal Reflections on Ethics, God, and the Meaning of Life.
  • 8.3 The Influence of Tolstoy and Kierkegaard.
  • 8.4 The Role of Experience in Shaping His Philosophical Outlook.
• Chapter 9: Continuity and Discontinuity with the Later Wittgenstein
  • 9.1 How the Early Emphasis on Limits Lingers in the Philosophical Investigations.
  • 9.2 The Shift from the "Essence" of Language to Language Games.
  • 9.3 Ethical Concerns in His Later Life and Work.
  • 9.4 The Evolving Nature of His Therapeutic Method.

Conclusion:

• Chapter 10: The Mystical as the Unavoidable Remainder
  • Summary of arguments: The mystical is not an add-on but an intrinsic part of Wittgenstein's early philosophical architecture.
  • Its function: to delineate the boundaries of the speakable and illuminate what lies beyond.
  • The paradox of communicating the ineffable through silence.
  • The enduring power and challenge of the Tractatus's mystical dimension.
  • Future avenues for research and philosophical inquiry.

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