Lecture on Ethics

The most complete edition yet published of Wittgenstein's1929 lecture includes a never-before published first draft andmakes fresh claims for its significance in Wittgenstein'soeuvre. * The first available print publication of all known drafts ofWittgenstein's Lecture on Ethics * Includes a previously unrecognized first draft of the lectureand new transcriptions of all drafts * Transcriptions preserve the philosopher's emendationsthus showing the development of the ideas in the lecture * Proposes a different draft as the version read by Wittgensteinin his 1929 lecture * Includes introductory essays on the origins of the material andon its meaning, content, and importance