ABSTRACT
Ludwig Wittgenstein took there to be a significant parallel between ethics and logic, and between the sorts of confusions philosophers tend to fall into when they take themselves to have discovered the aforementioned sorts of 'solution' to the problems of each. As long as the relevant conception of what it is to 'work' 'on' 'ethics' remains in place, there is some reason to sympathize with Hacker's conclusion. Commitment to a resolute reading introduces two interrelated constraints on any effort to understand the place of the ethical in the Tractatus; and these suffice to place any such reading at odds with most of what has been written about ethics in the Tractatus. The first is that such a reading may not take those propositions of the Tractatus that appear to say something about the ethical to succeed in conveying insight by giving voice to ineffable truths.
