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Episode 8: Wittgenstein’s Tractatus (and Carnap): What Can We Legitimately Talk About?

The Partially Examined Life Philosophy Podcast

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The Metaphysician's View of Ethics

Kant says there is no such thing as an ethical proposition that can't be put into words. But some people say he created space for something outside of logic, called the transcendental. The meaninglessness or nonsense thing is non-majority, which I tend to take from 6.42 in his Tractatus.

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