Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus · Theme
Solipsism and the Subject
How Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus develops Solipsism and the Subject.
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.
Where it surfaces
- 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.
- 5.633
The passage directly addresses the metaphysical subject and its relation to the world, emphasizing that the subject is not an object within the world.
- 5.64
The chapter directly addresses solipsism, showing that the 'I' reduces to a point and reality remains.
- 5.641
The 'I' as metaphysical subject is the limit of the world, not a part of it, resolving solipsism into a transcendental insight.
- 6.373
Highlights the boundary between the willing subject and the factual world.