Martin Heidegger VS Ludwig Wittgenstein: the world as an image and metaphysical dial

Abstract

The article compares the views of M. Heidegger and L. Wittgenstein, two of the greatest thinkers of the XX century, in terms of the basic positions of their philosophy, in the main ontological and epistemological attitudes, the semantics of their key concepts. The key common position of the discrepancy is the problem of language and the problem of pictorial representation of the world. This is clear already based on the nature of the teachings of two of the greatest philosophers of the twentieth century: M. Heidegger appeals to the traditions of initial thinking, as it was born at the dawn of European philosophy; L. Wittgensteins teaching is a completely new post-metaphysical epistemology based on the idea of language as a constitutive factor in the formation of a picture or image (of the world). Semantically, M. Heideggers WeltBild and L. Wittgensteins Bild as a linguistic representation of the world and is a metaphors of the New European Reason itself, something like the dial of a mechanical clock. In fact, the metaphor of the metaphysical dial is best suited to this screening of existence.