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Manifesting the Meaning of Life … S. Azimi Terambanian et al (67
What we say about ethics is 5. Eternal Being and Beyond
the same as what we say Wittgenstein believes that:
about aesthetics. I am my own world
Wittgenstein considers this (Microcosm). (Ibid: 5-63)
as a way of looking at the
world from an eternal The concept of
standpoint; That is, our common “Metaphysical Subject” or
mode of perception of the “Philosophical Self” in
world and everything in it is Wittgenstein's philosophy begins
from a middle perspective, with the expression of these
but the eternal aspect provides passages in the Tractatus.
words,
the
In
other
a different viewpoint from the metaphysical subject plays an
outside.
According to Wittgenstein, irreplaceable role in the
looking at the world from an philosophical system of the
eternal perspective means looking Tractatus:
at it as a whole, but a whole A philosophical subject
with limits. This form of goes beyond the world and
observation presents a view of is situated at the boundary
the entire universe, as behind of the possible world. The
it, one can glimpse the subject does not belong to
entirety of existence. the world but rather is the
According to Wittgenstein, limit of the world. (Ibid:
this kind of perspective can 632-635)
only be achieved through a According to Wittgenstein,
philosophical stance or a the subject is not a part of the
metaphysical subject. (Wittgenstein, world; rather, it is a
2001: 6- 45) presupposition for the existence
