The Meaning of Life: A Topological Approach
Analecta Husserliana 84:217–34 (2005)
| Abstract | In parts of his Notebooks, Tractatus and in “Lecture on Ethics”, Wittgenstein advanced a new approach to the problems of the meaning of life. It was developed as a reaction to the explorations on this theme by Bertrand Russell. Wittgenstein’s objective was to treat it with a higher degree of exactness. The present paper shows that he reached exactness by treating themes of philosophical anthropology using the formal method of topology. | |||||||||
| Keywords | meaning of life Wittgenstein Tolstoy existential paradox world soul topology | |||||||||
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