WITTGENSTEIN IN TOLSTOJ O ETIKI IN O SMISLU ŽIVLJENJA
Wittgenstein and Tolstoy on the meanin-of-life ethics

Summary/Abstract: Some key similarities between Wittgenstein’s ethical-logical standpoint in the time of Tractatus and the philosophical-spiritual standpoint of the late Tolstoy are described. The thought on the non-speakable meaning of life by both thinkers and the wish for a “non-problematic” life by both thinkers is exposed. For both the problem of the meaning of life is dissolved in the disappearance of this problem, if we can see at our life “sub specie aeterni”, i. e. from the atemporal newness. Wittgenstein didn’t read Tolstoy as a writer on the metaphysical and religious theories but as an author who gives evidence for his uncompromising spiritualethical attitude, his searches and many failures he was ever able to rise from.

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