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For the quotations appearing in this book from certain copyrighted works fully cited in the list of abbreviations (pages ix and x), the author gratefully acknowledges his thanks to the following proprietors:
Basil Blackwell, Publisher, Oxford, OX4 1JF, England, and Wittgenstein's literary executors for Wittgenstein's The Blue and Brown Books, "Lecture on Ethics," Notebooks 191416, On Certainty, Philosophical Investigations, Philosophical Remarks, and Zettel; and Friedrich Waismann's Wittgenstein und der Wiener Kreis.
Humanities Press, Inc., New Jersey 07716 (holder of U.S. rights), and Routledge & Kegan Paul, Limited, London E.C. 4 England (holder of world rights), for Wittgenstein's Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus.
Paperback reprint, 1985
Copyright 1982 by the Board of Regents of the State of Florida All rights reserved Printed in the U.S.A. on acid-free paper ISBN 0-8130-0839-5 LC 822830
Library of Congress Cataloging in Publication Data can be found on page 272.
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This book is for some friends: for Martha, of course, friend above all; for Tom Turner, true friend of mind and heart; and for all the generations of the Soup Group, the salt which has not lost its savor.
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Contents
Abbreviations
ix
Preface
xi
1. The recovery of Wittgenstein's thinking
1
2. Ethics in the Tractatus: showing and saying
11
3. The "Lecture on Ethics"
75
4. Showing and saying in the later work
103
5. Wittgenstein and Descartes
161
6. Ethics without philosophy
203
Notes
257
Index
265
Page ix
Abbreviations
BB
The Blue and Brown Books. Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 1958.
F
"Bemerkungen ber Fraser's The Golden Bough." Synthese 17 (1967): 23353. Page references will be to the translation by Rush Rhees in The Human World, 1971, pp. 1841.
LC
Lectures and Conversations on Aesthetics, Psychology and Religious Belief. Edited by Cyril Barrett. Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 1966.
LE
"Wittgenstein's Lecture on Ethics," The Philosophical Review 74 (January 1965).
LLW
Letters from Ludwig Wittgenstein. With a memoir by Paul Engelmann. Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 1967.
ML
"Wittgenstein's Lectures in 193033." Recorded by G. E. Moore; reprinted in Moore's Philosophical Papers. London: Allen and Unwin, 1959. Page references are to its reprinting in R. Ammerman, ed., Classics of Analytic Philosophy, pp. 23384. New York: McGraw-Hill, 1965.
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NB
Notebooks 19141916. Translated by G. E. M. Anscombe. Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 1961.
OC
On Certainty. Translated by G. E. M. Anscombe and D. Paul. Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 1969.
PG
Philosophical Grammar. Translated by A. Kenny. Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 1977.
PI
Philosophical Investigations. Translated by G. E. M. Anscombe. Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 1953.
PR
Philosophical Remarks. Translated by R. Hargreaves and R. White. Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 1975.
RFM
Remarks on the Foundations of Mathematics. Translated by G. E. M. Anscombe. Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 1956.
RKM
Letters to Russell, Keynes, and Moore. Edited by G. H. von Wright. Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 1974.
TLP
Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus. Translated by D. F. Pears and B. F. McGuinness. London: Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1961.
WWK
Friedrich Waismann. Wittgenstein und der Wiener Kreis. Edited by B. F. McGuinness. Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 1967.
Z
Zettel. Translated by G. E. M. Anscombe. Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 1967.
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Preface
Wittgenstein's work is both important and obscure. The true matter of his thinking, going as it does to the very heart of our culture, is difficult to grasp, yielding only to an effort of thinking that matches the original in courage and power. Why then publish this book, which certainly cannot pretend to such distinctions? What I have written here must be understood as a reaction to the kind of commentary Wittgenstein's work has so far received, and as a plea for another kind. A number of excellent introductions to his writings are in printnotably those by Kenny and Pearsbut to my knowledge no books have yet focused upon the hidden, determining ground of Wittgenstein's thinking in its progress from the
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