Mehrdad Safari
Abstract
In this essay, we intend, in the first place, to seek out a theory of the meaning of life from the view of the first Wittgenstein with a focus on Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus. However, ...
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In this essay, we intend, in the first place, to seek out a theory of the meaning of life from the view of the first Wittgenstein with a focus on Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus. However, exegetical works on Tractatus Logico-philosophicus have culminated in the impossibility of speaking about a theory of the meaning of life from the view of Wittgenstein because all of them, in one way or another, accepted the face value of the article 6.54 and 7, that is, to leave meta-scientific propositions. Hence, the first part of the essay delves into the analysis of this problem and suggests an interpretation of Tractatus which resolves this issue. This is done by adopting a grammatical-transcendental reading. After this, different possible Wittgensteinian answers to the problem of life, Tractatus Logico-philosophicus, are offered and scrutinized. Finally, the best answer is offered based on Wittgenstein's Tractatus Logico-philosophicus for a theory of the meaning of life. He believes the meaning of life requires a kind of eternity which does not last a very long time but is neither timeless.
