A Sick Soul. Wittgenstein’s Religious Experience seen from William James’ Varieties of Religious Experience.

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Vicente Sanfélix Vidarte

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This article maintains that Wittgenstein can be seen as a sick soul in the terms of William James’ The Varieties of the Religious Experience. It also holds that from the reading of this book Wittgenstein adopted a religious ideal that explains some aspects of his biography, his hostility to bourgeois civilization and the religious meaning of his philosophy.

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Sanfélix Vidarte, V. (2007). A Sick Soul. Wittgenstein’s Religious Experience seen from William James’ Varieties of Religious Experience. DIÁNOIA. Revista De Filosofía, 52(59), 67–96. https://doi.org/10.21898/dia.v52i59.305
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Vicente Sanfélix Vidarte

Departamento de Metafísica y Teoría del Conocimiento, Universidad de Valencia
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