Lecture on Ethics

Edoardo Zamuner is a postdoctoral fellow in the Philosophy Department of the University of Hong Kong. He has conducted research at University College London and the universities of Bologna and Melbourne. He has been a visiting researcher in the Wittgenstein Archives of the University of Bergen. Zamuner co-edited Wittgenstein’s Enduring Arguments (2009) with David Levy.Ermelinda Valentina Di Lascio is a Mairie de Paris Research Fellow at the Léon Robin Centre for the Study of Ancient Thought at the University of Paris-Sorbonne, France. She has published work on Wittgenstein, Aristotle’s Sophistical Refutations, and on ancient philosophical texts written on papyri. She is a former Leverhulme Early Career Fellow and Scholar of St John’s College, Cambridge.D.K. Levy is a teaching fellow in the School of Philosophy, Psychology, and Language Sciences at the University of Edinburgh, UK, where he lectures on moral philosophy and the history of philosophy. His research explores the nature of understanding, especially moral understanding. Dr Levy has published papers on moral philosophy, Wittgenstein and cognitive psychology.

• Acknowledgments vii1 Introduction: The Content of a Lecture on Ethics 12 Established Text of the Lecture: MS 139b Normalized 423 The Manuscripts of a Lecture on Ethics 524 Description of the Manuscripts 665 Symbols Used in the Diplomatic Transcriptions 696 Proto-Draft: Diplomatic Transcription 717 MS 139a: Diplomatic Transcription 778 MS 139b: Diplomatic Transcription 1019 TS 207: Diplomatic Transcription 123References 135Index 137