The Ethical Subject and Willing Subject in the Tractatus: an Alternative to the Transcendental Reading.
The Transcendental Reading of the Tractatus argues that Wittgenstein endorses, under the notion of 'metaphysical subject', the existence of a willing subject as a transcendental condition of ethics and representation. Tejedor aims to reject this reading resorting to three criticisms. (i) The notion...
| Publicado en: | Philosophia Vol. 47; no. 1; pp. 75 - 96 |
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