The Comparation Of Two Metaphysics’ Tendency

Kant and Wittgenstein showed their metaphysics’tendency through the demarcation. After realized the disease of the Enlightenment, Kant started to critiqued and rethink the human reason in order to limit the cognitive ability and then finally prescribed the "things-in-themselves" to leaving vacant for belief and morality. However, Wittgenstein who experienced the linguistic turn of philosophy drawn the line between the "what we can speak about" and "what we can not speak about" by the logical analysis of language, which is the line of language also the world. At last Wittgenstein found the significance and the value of life in "what we can not speak about" things. There are similar and difference between the demarcation of Kant and Wittgenstein, but they both influence the development of the western philosophy. This article attempts to contrast and analysis the theoretical sources, delimitation, metaphysical purposes and effects, in order to find the possibility of metaphysics.