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Early and Later Wittgenstein's conception of the world, ethics and later analysis of language.
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Prompt: The essence of early Wittgenstein's philosophy is that we are to go about a life dictated by facts, facts and more facts. He is not able to talk about the "most important things in life," namely, ethics. This absolute view of the world softens in Wittgenstein's later philosophy. I believe the methodology that the later Wittgenstein uses may be able to benefit from a consideration of a transcendental phenomenological plane (or something similar) as that given by a similar philosopher, Sankara. Comparing Wittgenstein's later philosophy to that Sankara's, we can see how similar philosophies treat the placement of "the most important things in life" within their linguistic sphere and possibly examine the treatment of one of those "non-speakable" items: Ethics. In the end, I think that Wittgenstein has a distinct problem with reference and meaning that I hope to explain and perhaps examine to find a way to...
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