Return To The Living World: The Aesthetics Dimensionality Of Wittgenstein's Thought

The western traditional philosophy pursues reason unilaterally, forgetting the people's realistic living world gradually, and causing the asceticism eventually in the Middle Ages. In the enlightenment movement, the public criticizes the religion with the reason, but the capitalism that developed together with the enlightenment movement, on the one hand, recurs to the reason to resist the old religion theology; on the other hand, it has to release the sense energy of the people, in order to develop the production. In this background, the enlightenment thinker are demanded to re-conciliate the antinomy between the sense and the reason of the people, in order to establish the new order for the capitalism society that will come soon. The esthetics is the outcome of this conciliation's the antinomy that it contains is inherent. Apparently its emergence indicates that the thinkers begin to pay attention to the people's sense, but in fact, as a bourgeois concept, what it expands is the colonizing of the reason, is a covert slavery of the reason to sense by another way. The antinomy of the esthetics decides the particularity of this subject: the groundwork of the esthetics is the sensible living world of the people, but the way it speaks is the rational scientific words. Enlightenment makes the mankind's center turn from God to reason, but the people discover quickly that the reason does not build up a heaven on earth like the people have conceived, on the contrary, the mankind social evils also emerge one after another with the capitalism's development. The modern thinkers begin to engage in introspection about this problem, and the prevalent thinking they have is to refuse the science world and return to people's living world. Therefore, the crisis of the reason, just provided the chance for that the esthetics gets away from the reason, which just step by step returns toward its origin- daily life world, and eventually the esthetics as a course, will also clear up by itself at the age of freedom and overall development of the people. This text is a pectination to the whole thought system of Wittgenstein, revealing that the core of his thought is a return to the living world, so there is a kind of esthetics spirit in it.The first part" Wittgenstein's thought on religion and ethics ". First the paper points out that the religion thought of Wittgenstein sets out from the living world, in accordance with development of the modern western religion (the faith changes from the church to the people's heart and practices). He puts forward that the religion is a kind of life style, and is the best life worth living, which is a kind of practice in essence, and belief or disbelief is only the dissimilarity of the life style. Wittgenstein also does not think (even deny) that Christianity is a kind of reality of history, but it does not hinder this kind of devotional life. Wittgenstein is against advocating the religion theoretically, thinking that the faith is free from the philosophical advocacy, even opposing the demonstration of science. Wittgenstein thinks what give us belief is the life, is that kind of life style that a person live in from his birth. Wittgenstein opposes the indoctrination of the religion, criticizing Paul, church and religious rites. At last, Wittgenstein gets a conclusion: The resolve of the life problem depends on the disappearance of the problem.The ethics is the start and end-result of Wittgenstein's thought (this standpoint does not change both in his early period and later period). In all his life, Wittgenstein insists that the ethics can't say. Why can't the ethics say? In the early period Wittgenstein mainly thinks the goodness is outside the fact, the world and the language, therefore it can't say. Along with the development of his thought, Wittgenstein emphasizes the diverse and complexity of the living world more and more, thinking it is nonsense that discussing the ethics theories abstractly is divorced from the realistic living world. Wittgenstein is against a general ethics standard, absolute value,...