Rito, Mito e Sentido nos Diários de Wittgenstein

Based on two pieces of information given in the Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus , one in the preface, which claims that the purpose of the book is to give pleasure to those who understand it, and the other in the end that says that its propositions are plain nonsense, this paper examines and discusses the sense of Wittgenstein's diaries in the light of the fact that in the later stage of his philosophical investigations rite and myth were no longer considered nonsense, although the philosophy remained, as before, a non-doctrinarian activity. The focus of the discussion consists in evaluating the continuity of the ethical/aesthetical strategy in Wittgenstein's philosophy, and, for that reason, in establishing a difference between therapeutic philosophy and therapeutic text. Apparently, only the latter would be more coherent to assume that ethics and aesthetics are a sole thing.