Abstract

In this essay, I argue that Wittgenstein clarified ethics through a procedure that, by analogy with 'transcendental arguments', I call 'transcendental thought experiment'. Specifically, after offering a perspectival account of both transcendental arguments and transcendental thought experiments, I focus on a thought experiment proposed by Wittgenstein in his 1929 'Lecture on Ethics', arguing that it deserves the title of “transcendental”.