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title = "Normativity and Ethics in the Tractatus: Method, Self and Value",
abstract = "In this paper, I examine Wittgenstein{\textquoteright}s earlier treatment of the relation between normativity and ethics. I argue that Wittgenstein{\textquoteright}s philosophical method shapes his approach to metaphysics and the self and this, in turn, shapes his approach to ethics. The paper is divided into three parts. In Part 1, I examine Wittgenstein{\textquoteright}s philosophical method in the Tractatus. In Part 2, I argue that exposure to the views of Schopenhauer, Russell and Mach shapes the evolution of Wittgenstein{\textquoteright}s thinking on the self, leading him to reject restrictive (metaphysical) solipsism and to endorse a non-restrictive (philosophical) notion of the subject. In Part 3, I bring out the intimate connection that exists between Wittgenstein{\textquoteright}s approaches to philosophical method, the self and ethics in the Tractatus. I argue that, for Wittgenstein, dissolving restrictive solipsism is ethically transforming: this dissolution retunes our dispositions to think and speak in a manner that reflects a greater clarity in our understanding of our place in the world – a clarity of understanding that is, in and of itself, ethically valuable. ",
keywords = "Wittgenstein , Tractatus, Logic, Science, Ethics",
author = "Chon Tejedor and Mark Bevir and Andrius Galisanka",
note = "Chon Tejedor, {\textquoteleft}Normativity and Ethics in the Tractatus: Method, Self and Value{\textquoteright}, in Mark Bevir, Andrius Galisanka, eds., Wittgenstein and Normative Inquiry, (Netherlands: Brill Publishing, 2016), ISBN 978-9004324091, eISBN 978-9004324107. ",
year = "2016",
month = jun,
day = "30",
language = "English",
isbn = "978-9004324091",
series = "Studies in Moral Philosophy",
publisher = "Brill Academic Publishers",
editor = "Bevir, {Mark } and Andrius Galisanka",
booktitle = "Wittgenstein and Normative Inquiry",
address = "Netherlands",
}