Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus · Question
How does Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus develop the theme of Solipsism and the Subject?
Answer
Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus by Ludwig Wittgenstein develops Solipsism and the Subject across the chapters the companion marks for this theme.
The claim that the metaphysical subject does not belong to the world but is a limit of it, and that solipsism, when strictly thought through, coincides with realism.
Directly addresses the nature of the subject and the soul, arguing against a composite view.
Implies a subjective boundary where the individual's language defines their world, connecting to solipsistic limits.
Implicitly touches on the subject's perspective, as the limits of the world are also the limits of logic and thought.
Evidence in the book
- 5.5421
Directly addresses the nature of the subject and the soul, arguing against a composite view.
- 5.6
Implies a subjective boundary where the individual's language defines their world, connecting to solipsistic limits.
- 5.61
Implicitly touches on the subject's perspective, as the limits of the world are also the limits of logic and thought.
- 5.62
Directly addresses solipsism as a truth that shows itself, linking the limits of language to the limits of the world.
- 5.621
The identification of world and life implies the subject's world is its life, a key solipsistic idea.
- 5.63
The proposition 'I am my world' directly expresses the solipsistic identification of the self with the world, and the subject as the limit.
- 5.631
This section directly addresses the non-existence of the thinking subject, showing that the subject is not an entity within the world but a limit.
- 5.632
Directly addresses the nature of the subject as a limit, not an element, of the world.
