Going Back to the Religious Beginning

This essay is more about Kierkegaard than Wittgenstein. I intend to show that two philosophical principles of Wittgenstein's are carried out very clearly in Kierkegaard's writings, particularly in the two attributed to Johannes Climacus the EIGHTEEN UPBUILDING DISCOURSES. The principles are procedural in nature. The first has to do with the way one's philosophical attention should be focused. It can be stated like this: pay attention to the concrete, the physical, and the particular when doing philosophy. The second principle might be called "the stopping principle".