Le Tractatus De Wittgenstein Et l’ Ethique De Spinoza: Etude De Comparison Structurale

Wittgenstein in Tractatus and Spinoza in Ethics , construct philosophical systems unifying World, Man and God, systems which differ in many points. According to Spinoza, for example, humans are certain that nothing happens without cause, while Wittgenstein refuses to acknowledge the possibility of a causal relation between events. The first part of the book dissects the work of Wittgenstein; the second analyzes Spinoza’s doctrine; and the third singles out the points of concordance and those of disagreement in the respective constructions. Both philosophical works are treated as if they fell into the domain of sciences such as mechanics or astronomy, and appropriate geometric models are used to interpret them. This comparative study of Tractatus and Ethics , both of which continue to exert their influence on human thought, allows one to determine how Tractatus , a work of the 20th century, is bound to the rationalism of the 17th century as voiced by Spinoza.