Religion in Early Wittgenstein Philosophy

Ludwig Josef Johann Wittgenstein is one of the famous analytic philosophers of the twentieth century. He is in this belief that ethics and religion are beyond the boundaries of language. So, “whereof one cannot speak, thereof one must be silent.” His notion about religion in his early period of his life is concise and ambiguous. For this reason, exponents and commentators of his writings adopted two different positions. Some draw a religious picture of him while some others know him as an unbeliever.
The aim of the present paper is to explore Wittgenstein’s writing in the first period of his life’s in order to understand his stand point about God and religion. The main question of the article is what religion means from his view point? If religion is equivalent to the belief in God or the practice of religious virtues as believers know or is it something equal to ethics? Owing to the conciseness of the Wittgenstein’s writings, we have tried to use the ideas of other explainers such as Norman Malcolm and Cyril Barrett.