نوع مقاله : مقاله پژوهشی
عنوان مقاله English
نویسندگان English
This paper undertakes a comparative analysis of the signified of “God” in Immanuel Kant’s Critique of Pure Reason and Ludwig Wittgenstein’s Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus. On the one hand, within his epistemological framework, Kant deems any theoretical cognition of God impossible, yet posits God as a “Transcendental Idea” that delineates humanity’s telos toward the unconditioned. On the other hand, through establishing an isomorphic relation between the logical form of language and the structure of the world, Wittgenstein excludes God from the realm of propositional discourse, situating God outside the world as that which cannot be said (sayable), but only shown (showable). Providing an overview of the philosophical systems developed in these seminal works, this study scrutinizes each philosopher’s conception of God: in both frameworks, God remains distinct from and transcendent to the empirical world, residing beyond conceptual cognition or rational demonstration. For Kant, God is a transcendental idea of pure reason—an entity that can merely be thought, not known. For Wittgenstein, God is the mystical (das Mystische), ineffable in language yet manifest in experience. The crucial divergence lies in the fact that while Kant denies any cognitive or theoretical access, Wittgenstein leaves open the possibility of a non-discursive, intuitive encounter with the mystical.
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