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To Keep Silent
Chvojková, Stela ; Matějčková, Tereza (advisor) ; Petříček, Miroslav (referee)
The master thesis is dedicated to silence as a limit phenomenon of language. It elaborates on the problem in dialogue with Ludwig Wittgenstein, in whose philosophy this aspect of silence is central. First, an interpretation of the Tractatus in the light of its final sentence "Whereof one cannot speak, thereof one must be silent" is presented. The emphasis is put on the ultimate paradox of the text, which traditional interpretations seek to undermine. In the second part of the thesis, Wittgenstein's later reflections, especially those from the Philosophical Investigations, are used to question the binary distinction between silence and language and as a result, to describe silence as a positive phenomenon linked to the possibility of showing. The thesis thus seeks to explore from different angles the phenomenon of silence in its ambiguity and to underline its philosophical significance.
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