The religiosity of L. Wittgenstein: N. Malcolm’s analogies

The research analyzes the religiosity of Ludwig Wittgenstein through the historical and philosophical reconstruction of the philosopher’s worldview. Western scholars widely apply some aspects of Wittgenstein’s intellectual heritage for productive solution to the problems of the philosophy of religion, whereas this issue has not been developed at the appropriate level in the Russian science. This determines the relevance of the research. The authors focus on the solution to the key question for this problem: how does Wittgenstein’s philosophical position relate to the religious worldview? The study pays a particular attention to the four analogies of Norman Malcolm that he drew between his teacher’s philosophy and the religious perception of the world. Analyzing the original Malcolm’s position, the authors draw their own conclusion about the existence of certain parallels between Wittgensteinian and religious ideas, as well as the relationship between the logic and metaphysics of the outstanding Austrian philosopher.

Ludwig Wittgenstein, the world, religiosity, metaphysics, logic, philosophy of language, Norman Malcolm