ABSTRACT

Wittgenstein’s early philosophy was worked out in the six years or so following his arrival in Cambridge in 1911, and published in the Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus in 1922. After a long hiatus, Wittgenstein took up philosophy again in 1929, and soon began to develop the ideas which were published after his death-first in the Philosophical Investigations, the masterpiece of his mature philosophy, and then in editions of various notebooks, drafts and collections of philosophical remarks. Both of these philosophies include highly original and influential views about the nature of religion. I shall discuss them in turn.