MEANING AND EXISTENCE
Urbano Pardillo Jr.
5.621 The world and life are one.
5.63 I am my world. (The microcosm)
6.522 There are, indeed, things that cannot be put into words. They make themselves manifest.
They are what is mystical.
6.54 My propositions serve as elucidations in the following way: anyone who understands me eventually recognizes them as nonsensical, when he has used them—as steps—to climb up beyond them. (He must, so to speak, throw away the ladder after he has climbed up it.)
7. What we cannot speak about we must pass over in silence.
Even though Wittgenstein’s thoughts in the Tractatus are very difficult to understand, I will try to express my thoughts despite the tendency of falling into the nonsense. After reading many articles about Wittgenstein and the Tractatus, I have realized that I belong to the many who have been enchanted by his thoughts. Anyone who likes to search the internet could find bunch of writers commenting on the Tractatus whose ideas and positions reveals the different reading and interpretation of Wittgenstein. In this paper I cannot offer anything; neither any elucidation nor interpretation. What I will do is just to express my thoughts in so far as I am drawn to think about life, language and the world.
The world.
It is strongly against my will to claim that this is my world. It is true that my existence occupies a certain space which is the locus of everything that I am. But I have no right to claim that it is mine. In the very first place, to exist in space is not a right nor it is in my power to self exist according to my whims and caprices. At the very outset, it is not my choice to be in this world. Before I came to this world, it alr ...