Toward a Resolute Reading of Being and Time : Heidegger, Wittgenstein, and the Dilemma between Inconsistency and Ineffability

Both Heidegger and Wittgenstein consider the possibility of a philosophical inquiry an absolutely universal scope—an into being all beings, in Heidegger’s case, logical form everything that can be meaningfully said, Wittgenstein’s. Moreover, they both raise worry theoretical language by means which we speak particular beings assert facts is not suitable for this task. And yet their own work seems to include many assertions ordinary, language. Are inconsistent? Or are hoping use way conveys what cannot said language? Much scholarship on each these thinkers takes one two horns dilemma. In context scholarship, however, third alternative has been proposed: “resolute” reading Tractatus. My aim establish availability similar solution predicament. It will emerge rejects account pursues project radically different sort, goal bring about transformation our fundamental relation being.