‘Around the axis of our real need’: On the Ethical Point of Wittgenstein’s Philosophy

The Aesthetic Dimension of Wittgenstein’s Later Writings

“…Instead, an internal relation between possible states of affairs "expresses itself" through an internal relation between the representing propositions (TLP 4.125), and their internal relation likewise "expresses itself," is not something we can express, not something our words can say (TLP 4.121); it needs to be seen. For the early Wittgenstein, then, the Tractarian remarks including the phrase "internal relation" are to be understood according to that interpretive stance that readers of the Tractatus are asked to take toward the book as a whole: they are to be surmounted, transcended, finally done without (TLP 6.54;Emiliani 2003;Koeth 2003;Krebs 2001;Mounce 2003;Proops 2001;Read and Deans 2003;Vilhauer 2003).…”