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In When the Whistling Had to Stop Hacker says that “after the ‘Lecture on Ethics’ of 1929 Wittgenstein wrote nothing further on ethics, save for occasional asides.”1 The term “occasional asides” mainly refers to the collection of remarks entitled (1) Culture and Value, (2) Remarks on Frazer’s Golden Bough, and (3) Lectures & Conversations on Aesthetics, Psychology and Religious Belief. Hacker points out that in Philosophical Investigations there is nothing on ethical themes, such as good and bad willing, value which is of value, etc.
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Augustine, Earlier Writings, edited by J.H.S. Burleigh, SCM press, 1953, p. 70.
See, for example, Gellner E. (1959) Words and Things. I believe that Uschanov has made it clear that Gellner was completely off-course in his understanding of Wittgenstein.
See Uschanov’s “Gellner’s Criticisms of Wittgenstein,” in Marx and Wittgenstein, edited by Gavin Kitching and Nigel Pleasants, Routledge, 2002. See also Malcolm (1976), or, Searle (1969). Again, it is not surprising that failing to understand the ethical aspects of Wittgenstein’s thought has misled so many commentators into partial and incomprehensive views of his thought on language.
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Iczkovits, Y. (2012). Philosophical Imaginations. In: Wittgenstein’s Ethical Thought. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137026361_3
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