Lecture on Ethics
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The most complete edition yet published of Wittgenstein’s 1929 lecture includes a never-before published first draft and makes fresh claims for its significance in Wittgenstein’s oeuvre.
- The first available print publication of all known drafts of Wittgenstein’s Lecture on Ethics
- Includes a previously unrecognized first draft of the lecture and new transcriptions of all drafts
- Transcriptions preserve the philosopher’s emendations thus showing the development of the ideas in the lecture
- Proposes a different draft as the version read by Wittgenstein in his 1929 lecture
- Includes introductory essays on the origins of the material and on its meaning, content, and importance
Ludwig Wittgenstein
Ludwig Wittgenstein (1889-1951) was born in Austria and studied at Cambridge under Bertrand Russell. He volunteered to serve in the Austrian army at the outbreak of World War I, and in 1918 was captured and sent to a prison camp in Italy, where he finished his masterpiece, Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus, one of the most important philosophical works of all time. After the war Wittgenstein eventually returned to Cambridge to teach.
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