The Ideological Sources of Wittgenstein's Ethics

Levi has argued that there are two enigmas in Wittgenstein's work and life that can only be explained by his sense of guilt caused by his homosexuality. Enigma 1 is why Wittgenstein advocated a transnatural, two-world ethics; enigma 2, why he accused himself to be a swine in the Engelmann letters. Presented this way, Levi gives little offense or reason for criticism. In particular his solution for the enigma of Wittgenstein's self-accusations seems quite plausible. In spite of all irrationality we might ascribe to Wittgenstein it would have been too irrational even for him to accuse himself of being a swine because of despair of the failure to make the Tractatus understood, as Rudebush and Berg suppose

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