Antonio Di Chiro, “The Duty to Oneself. Logic, Language, and Ethics in Weininger and Early Wittgenstein,” Revista Portuguesa de Filosofia 81, no. 4 (2025): 1299–324, https://doi.org/10.17990/RPF/2025_81_4_1299.
| Item Type | Journal Article |
|---|---|
| Author | Antonio Di Chiro |
| Abstract | This paper aims to reconstruct Otto Weininger’s influence on the philosophy of the early Wittgenstein, with the goal of showing how Wittgensteinian metaphysics is shaped, on the one hand, by the concept of genius and, on the other, by Weininger’s account of the relationship between logic and ethics. I will to attempt to demonstrate that in Wittgenstein this relationship is articulated through the notion of the mystical, and that logic and ethics form an indissoluble unity insofar as the resolution of a logical problem coincides with the resolution of an ethical one. |
| Date | 2025 |
| Library Catalog | 401; 401.43; 401.45; 160; 401.41 |
| License | © 2026 by Aletheia - Associação Científica e Cultural |
| Volume | 81 |
| Publisher | Axioma - Publicações da Faculdade de Filosofia |
| Section | Philosophy of Language: New Frontiers in Meaning and Use |
| Pages | 1299-1324 |
| Publication | Revista Portuguesa de Filosofia |
| DOI | 10.17990/RPF/2025_81_4_1299 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Journal Abbr | RPF |
| ISSN | 0870-5283 ; 2183-461X |
| Date Added | 1/31/2026, 7:42:12 PM |
| Modified | 1/31/2026, 9:22:41 PM |
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