dc.contributor.author | Earl, Kaleb | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2015-08-18T12:50:06Z | |
dc.date.available | 2015-08-18T12:50:06Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2015 | |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/10222/60351 | |
dc.description.abstract | Both Simone Weil and Ludwig Wittgenstein hold mysticism—i.e., the belief in something utterly transcendent—centrally. The mysticism present in Wittgenstein’s Tractatus Logico- Philosophicus presents a problem: if “the mystical” is a “deep” nonsense, and there is something important that cannot be sensibly presented in language, we are left in an undesirable situation. The mystical is taken to be of paramount importance, but is ultimately inaccessible to reason. Weil, starting with political and theological considerations, arrives at a similar problem.
A mystical position yields the “problem of mysticism”: There is the mystical; it is of crucial importance, and it is inaccessible to our reason. Weil’s mystical praxis of decreation is a solution to the problem. This does not present a way that we can come to the mystical, but a way that we can become aware of its revelation, which bypasses our reason. | en_US |
dc.language.iso | en | en_US |
dc.subject | Ludwig Wittgenstein | en_US |
dc.subject | Simone Weil | en_US |
dc.subject | Mysticism | en_US |
dc.subject | Ineffability | en_US |
dc.title | Effing the Ineffable: The Mysticism of Simone Weil and Ludwig Wittgenstein | en_US |
dc.type | Thesis | en_US |
dc.date.defence | 2015-08-14 | |
dc.contributor.department | Department of Philosophy | en_US |
dc.contributor.degree | Master of Arts | en_US |
dc.contributor.external-examiner | n/a | en_US |
dc.contributor.graduate-coordinator | Letitia Meynell | en_US |
dc.contributor.thesis-reader | Steven Burns | en_US |
dc.contributor.thesis-reader | Michael Hymers | en_US |
dc.contributor.thesis-supervisor | Duncan MacIntosh | en_US |
dc.contributor.ethics-approval | Not Applicable | en_US |
dc.contributor.manuscripts | Not Applicable | en_US |
dc.contributor.copyright-release | Not Applicable | en_US |