ABSTRACT
This chapter provides examples from Wittgenstein's 'surrounding' culture and shows how the Perspective-Element can be understood as rooted in a certain form of self-concern. It sets out the main facets of the Weltbild of selfconcern and its sense of the predicament confronting the self. The chapter suggests the Perspective-Element's idea of independence of the world is really just such a form of self-concern. It shows all the other elements of the Wittgensteinian position can be understood as deriving from a world-view permeated with such self-concern. There is a connection between the Absoluteness-Element, which holds that self-renouncing faith is an end in itself, and the Weltbild of self-concern. The idea that selflessness requires a stance of unreflectiveness is deeply linked to the Weltbild of self-concern and had roots in the culture surrounding it. The chapter concludes the elements of the Wittgensteinian position can be understood as having their sitz im leben in the Weltbild of self-concern.
