G. E. Moore's Ethical Theory: Resistance and ReconciliationCambridge University Press, 2001 M07 2 - 219 páginas This 2001 book is a comprehensive study of the ethics of G. E. Moore, the most important English-speaking ethicist of the twentieth century. Moore's ethical project, set out in his seminal text Principia Ethica, is to preserve common moral insight from scepticism and, in effect, persuade his readers to accept the objective character of goodness. Brian Hutchinson explores Moore's arguments in detail and in the process relates the ethical thought to Moore's anti-sceptical epistemology. Moore was, without perhaps fully realizing it, sceptical about the very enterprise of philosophy itself, and in this regard, as Brian Hutchinson reveals, was much closer in his thinking to Wittgenstein than has been previously realized. This book shows Moore's ethical work to be much richer and more sophisticated than his critics have acknowledged. |
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... appear to be the ones right on the surface, when the idea of depth seems illusory.3 Principia captures this thought as beautifully as any that has the depth to defend it. Its being an expression of the thought that wisdom lies in ...
... appear to be the ones right on the surface, when the idea of depth seems illusory.3 Principia captures this thought as beautifully as any that has the depth to defend it. Its being an expression of the thought that wisdom lies in ...
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... appear- ance. But even if there were, no matter how ingenious and ingenuous his re-presentation of it would happen to be, it would, since it lies on the other side of doubt, have to be something different. So Moore makes not one, but ...
... appear- ance. But even if there were, no matter how ingenious and ingenuous his re-presentation of it would happen to be, it would, since it lies on the other side of doubt, have to be something different. So Moore makes not one, but ...
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... appears to be much too abstract to tell us any- thing interesting about the flesh and blood of real life . But eventually one comes to wonder whether that tone enables him to find an element of purity that is common to our most mundane ...
... appears to be much too abstract to tell us any- thing interesting about the flesh and blood of real life . But eventually one comes to wonder whether that tone enables him to find an element of purity that is common to our most mundane ...
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... appears to undermine it. Even as he purports to locate the things lying not so much beyond as before dispute, he invites dispute. To make an official philosophical pronouncement that certain things are not open to serious question is to ...
... appears to undermine it. Even as he purports to locate the things lying not so much beyond as before dispute, he invites dispute. To make an official philosophical pronouncement that certain things are not open to serious question is to ...
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... appear to provide us with only the smallest of comforts, as the depth philosoph- ical credulity does reach is enough to make the human condition one of bewilderment and woe. But it does leave open the hope that we all have moments of ...
... appear to provide us with only the smallest of comforts, as the depth philosoph- ical credulity does reach is enough to make the human condition one of bewilderment and woe. But it does leave open the hope that we all have moments of ...
Contenido
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2 Goods Nonnaturalness | 39 |
3 The Paradox of Ethics and Its Resolution | 61 |
Dimming the Future and Brightening the Past | 78 |
5 The Origin of the Awareness of Good and the Theory of Common Sense | 93 |
6 Moores Argument Against Egoism | 112 |
7 The Diagnosis of Egoism and the Consequences of Its Rejection | 131 |
8 Moores Practical and Political Philosophy | 146 |
9 Moores Cosmic Conservatism | 172 |
10 Cosmic Conservatism II | 190 |
Bibliography | 211 |
Index | 215 |
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G. E. Moore's Ethical Theory: Resistance and Reconciliation Brian Hutchinson Vista previa limitada - 2001 |
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