Wittgenstein, Culture, and Value: “Whereof one cannot speak, thereof one must be silent.”

In his work called Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus, Wittgenstein ends his book with the stunning phrase: “Whereof one cannot speak, thereof one must be silent”. Although this phrase of his has deeply affected me and my thinking, it is quite ironic that what I am doing right now contradicts with the literal meaning of the phrase, that … Continue reading Wittgenstein, Culture, and Value: “Whereof one cannot speak, thereof one must be silent.”