Essays about: "ineffability"

Found 2 essays containing the word ineffability.

1. 1. A Reductive Reading of the Tractatus

   University essay from Umeå universitet/Institutionen för idé- och samhällsstudier

   Author : Stefan Karlsson; [2014]
   Keywords : Nonsense; Tractatus; reductive;

   Abstract : Modern readings of the Tractatus focus on the concept of nonsense instead of the meta-physics presented in the book. In fact a resolute reading sees the body of the system as mere nonsense and calls it a “ladder that should be thrown away”[1]. READ MORE

3. 2. With Cold Foreign Eyes? Existential Meaning in Truth vs. Mystery in Religion and Art

   University essay from Lunds universitet/Centrum för teologi och religionsvetenskap

   Author : Linus Edenwall; [2014]
   Keywords : meaning; mystery; mysticism; sensuousness; immediacy; ineffability; truth; objectivity; existentialism; science; art; concepts; conceptualization; Philosophy and Religion;

   Abstract : This essay explores two approaches to finding existential meaning in religion: either by an approach advocating feelings of mystery and sensuous immediacy, thus justifying an ineffability of mysterious experiences, or by an approach which advocates truth and objectivity. Although the latter approach views truth in existential terms (“existential truth”) it can be criticised for diminishing the “magic” of religion much in the same way science does in its pursuit of material truth. READ MORE