Wittgenstein, Kierkegaard and the Unspeakable

Soren Kierkegaard and Ludwig Wittgenstein have long been thought of as philosophers with little, if anything in common. There are but a handful of contemporary philosophers who have provided links between works by Kierkegaard and works by Wittgenstein; however no one has, at least explicitly, provided the following link I intend to show in this paper. I will show Kierkegaard\u27s Fear and Trembling and Wittgenstein\u27s Tractatus Logico Philosophicus have a remarkably common theme in each. The theme is the ability of one to communicate, or understand the unspeakable, that which remains beyond the limits of language. Both Philosophers have a unique approach to arriving at this conclusion, Kierkegaard through religion and Wittgenstein through logic, but each reaches a point in which a person must remain silent