Keywords
ethics
religion
language uses
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Abstract
This paper aims to present Wittgenstein's view on ethical and religious expressions in both the Tractatus and A Lecture on Ethics. It also attempts to figure out what could have been his views on the subject in the second stage of his thought according to the statements he makes in the Philosophical Investigations, after the criticism and rejection of his views on the limits of language and the relations between language and reality as stated in the Tractatus. This piece has three parts, the first two aim to locate and focus on the ethical and religious perspective in what Wittgenstein himself called correct vision of the world, the third wishes to contribute to the debate on the ways of understanding the ethical and religious usages of language.This journal is registered under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Public License. Thus, this work may be reproduced, distributed, and publicly shared in digital format, as long as the names of the authors and Pontificia Universidad Javeriana are acknowledged. Others are allowed to quote, adapt, transform, auto-archive, republish, and create based on this material, for any purpose (even commercial ones), provided the authorship is duly acknowledged, a link to the original work is provided, and it is specified if changes have been made. Pontificia Universidad Javeriana does not hold the rights of published works and the authors are solely responsible for the contents of their works; they keep the moral, intellectual, privacy, and publicity rights.
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