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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... conclude, “However readily we now reject as antiquated his views in semantics and epistemology, it seems ... conclusion that “Moore felt that the argument . . . needed a more careful statement than he had previously given it ...
... conclude, “However readily we now reject as antiquated his views in semantics and epistemology, it seems ... conclusion that “Moore felt that the argument . . . needed a more careful statement than he had previously given it ...
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... conclusion starts with the observation that in order to engage in serious moral reflection, one must be searching and fearless; one must be willing to explore the possibility that anything might be good. Even though Moore admits this ...
... conclusion starts with the observation that in order to engage in serious moral reflection, one must be searching and fearless; one must be willing to explore the possibility that anything might be good. Even though Moore admits this ...
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... conclude that complacency toward standing orders is less dangerous than complacency toward untested new orders. A century has just closed in which fatuous optimism about the ef- fects of unmooring people from their characteristic ...
... conclude that complacency toward standing orders is less dangerous than complacency toward untested new orders. A century has just closed in which fatuous optimism about the ef- fects of unmooring people from their characteristic ...
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... conclusion. A way of fending it off that is suggested by other, related lines in his thought is to see philoso- phy and other intellectual activities as purely aesthetic in character, to see them, that is, as concerned solely with ...
... conclusion. A way of fending it off that is suggested by other, related lines in his thought is to see philoso- phy and other intellectual activities as purely aesthetic in character, to see them, that is, as concerned solely with ...
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... conclude that the price of severing philosophy from truth is one Moore would have found too high. At the end of this book, we consider a way of maintain- ing a connection between philosophical and other kinds of systematic thought and ...
... conclude that the price of severing philosophy from truth is one Moore would have found too high. At the end of this book, we consider a way of maintain- ing a connection between philosophical and other kinds of systematic thought and ...
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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