[Revised entry by Garry Hagberg on April 22, 2025.
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Given the extreme importance that Wittgenstein attached to the aesthetic dimension of life, it is in one sense surprising that he wrote so little on the subject. It is true that we have the notes assembled from his lectures on aesthetics given to a small group of students in private rooms in Cambridge in the summer of 1938 (Wittgenstein 1966, henceforth LA) and we have G. E. Moore’s record of some of Wittgenstein’s lectures in the period 1930 – 33 (Moore 1972). Of Wittgenstein’s own writings, we…

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