Wittgenstein and objections to the first person

Abstract

The dissolution of the Cartesian self was reduced to a pure meaningless statement or emptiness of referent. For this reason the I has stopped being understood in philosophy as a referential object. From this distinction between reference and non-reference, Wittgenstein will come to elaborate his critique of traditional metaphysics and the theory of meaning. But even so the problematic of a first person jumps to us in the measurement in which the language is indispensable to give account of the conscience, and although it is certain that it is not a term whose existence is referential, it does not for that reason empty of a certain existence, although it is not an objective term, since it is not even an object of the intellect, but this does not stop having influence in the world.