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Wittgenstein had reached Neuwaldegg, the family The Magic Carpet | 41 summer home in Vienna, from Monte Cassino on Monday, August 25, 1919. The following day his military discharge was made official. It had been little more than a year that Wittgenstein had spent away from Vienna; early the preceding August, on military leave at Neuwaldegg, he had brought to completion the book which later came to be called the Tractaius Logico-Philosophicus and had submitted it to the publishers Jahoda and Siegel.
And their companionship would distract and protect him from the loneliness that would send him stalking into the night in search of sex. The other strategy that Wittgenstein used to protect himself from himself was simply to avoid "danger areas," such as Vienna, Manchester and London, where casual and impersonal sex without any intellectual or spiritual dimension was easily come by: thus his monklike retreats to Norway, to the isolated villages of Semmering in lower Austria, and even to Cambridge.
53) Not only is pre-Kantian speculative metaphysics excluded from the "sayable" and meaningful by Wittgenstein's criteria—a more detailed account of which will be sketched below—so are universal laws of nature, the "elucidatory" statements of the Tractatus itself, logic, ethics and aesthetics, philosophy, religion. Yet at most only speculative metaphysics is condemned outright. Logic, ethics and aesthetics, and religion, while described as "transcendental," are not condemned. " While declaring that ethics is meaningless, Wittgenstein nonetheless reported to his friends Ludwig von Ficker and Paul Engelmann that the whole point of the book was ethical.