Solipsism of Early Wittgenstein

• Authors: Gurczynska K.
• Languages of publication: PL

Abstracts

EN

Wittgenstein used a puzzling phrase 'my world'. The authoress stresses that at least two questions are buried in this formulation. It is unclear, who is the 'I' that in some way possesses the world, and it is equally unclear what it means to make of the world one's own possession. In her interpretation a clue to the right answer is to be found in Wittgenstein's conception of the will, and specifically in his claim that the will is unable to change the world. This claim is counterbalanced by another, in which Wittgenstein says that man can make himself independent of the vicissitudes of fortune. Perhaps this is how his world can be made independent of the common world inaccessible to his will.

Keywords

EN

ASPECTS OF WORLD; FORTUNE'S VICISSITUDES; WILL'S CONCEPTION; WITTGENSTEIN LUDWIG

Discipline

• PHILOSOPHY: PHILOSOPHY

• Publisher: Polska Akademia Nauk
• Journal: Przegląd Filozoficzny. Nowa Seria
• Year: 2007
• Volume: 16
• Issue: 2(62)
• Pages: 173-180
• Document type: ARTICLE

Contributors

author

Gurczynska K.

• K. Gurczynska, Uniwersytet Marii Curie-Sklodowskiej w Lublinie, Instytut Filozofii, pl. M. Curie-Sklodowskiej 4, 20-031 Luiblin, Poland

Identifiers

CEJSH db identifier

08PLAAAA04017910