Wittgenstein's Encounters with Kierkegaard : Kierkegaard's Philosophy of Religion in Practice in Christianity

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  • ウィトゲンシュタインのキェルケゴール体験 : 『キリスト教の修練』の宗教哲学を生きること
  • ウィトゲンシュタイン ノ キェルケゴール タイケン : 『 キリストキョウ ノ シュウレン 』 ノ シュウキョウ テツガク オ イキル コト

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In this paper, I attempt to identify Wittgenstein's relations to Kierkegaard at the period of his diaries Ludwig Wittgenstein: Denkbewegungen. Tagebucher 1930-1932, 1936-1937. In short, I claim that Wittgenstein put in practice Kierkegaard's philosophy of religion as taught in Practice in Christianity. According to Kierkegaard's Practice in Christianity, we need to be contemporaneous with Christ, face the possibility of offence, and overcome it to have faith. He also thinks that when we fully realize our imperfection in contrast to the demands of such an ideal, we may come to find some reality in the forgiveness of our sins. At the period from 1930 to 1932, Wittgenstein considers his vanity and cowardice as his sins. I argue that at the period from 1936 to 1937, he seeks salvation in Christianity and then reads Kierkegaard's Practice in Christianity. I also argue that in the end Wittgenstein comes to have faith in the forgiveness of his sins as Kierkegaard intends in his book.

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