Lascio, Ermelinda Valentina Di
Lecture on Ethics
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
Keywords: Wittgenstein, Wittgenstein, ethics, moral philosophy, morality, moral theory, language, literary theory, literature, social anthropology, public lecture, Heretics Society, Cambridge
- Author(s)
- Lascio, Ermelinda Valentina Di
- Levy, D. K.
- Wittgenstein, Ludwig
- Zamuner, Edoardo
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons, Inc.
- Publication year
- 2014
- Language
- en
- Edition
- 1
- Page amount
- 152 pages
- Category
- Philosophy
- Format
- Ebook
- eISBN (ePUB)
- 9781118887134
- Printed ISBN
- 9781118842676