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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... considers the claim that good is an indefinable property to be of crucial importance to Moore, Regan ignores the argument by which he attempts to prove it. His single reference to this “particularly important argument” has to do with ...
... considers the claim that good is an indefinable property to be of crucial importance to Moore, Regan ignores the argument by which he attempts to prove it. His single reference to this “particularly important argument” has to do with ...
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... considers Moore to be trying to present the world as we would all acknowledge it to be but for our letting it get sicklied o'er with philosophical thought, the response is that he actually just presents us with another appearance of the ...
... considers Moore to be trying to present the world as we would all acknowledge it to be but for our letting it get sicklied o'er with philosophical thought, the response is that he actually just presents us with another appearance of the ...
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... considers that his ruthless exposure of the “ natu- ralistic fallacy " by the OQA will give philosophers a chance to go back to just before the moment when they made the first false judgment of iden- tity that set everything off on the ...
... considers that his ruthless exposure of the “ natu- ralistic fallacy " by the OQA will give philosophers a chance to go back to just before the moment when they made the first false judgment of iden- tity that set everything off on the ...
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... consider it to be their task to show " morality [ to be ] a genuine and objective area of inquiry , ” that need not appeal to any grand notions of an “ inde- pendent metaphysical order . " 21 One might continue in this vein by say- ing ...
... consider it to be their task to show " morality [ to be ] a genuine and objective area of inquiry , ” that need not appeal to any grand notions of an “ inde- pendent metaphysical order . " 21 One might continue in this vein by say- ing ...
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... Consider , for instance , his claim that good is something we are unable to pick up and move about with even “ the most delicate scientific instruments . ' " 22 Such figures have a charm that heightens Principia's quality of innocence ...
... Consider , for instance , his claim that good is something we are unable to pick up and move about with even “ the most delicate scientific instruments . ' " 22 Such figures have a charm that heightens Principia's quality of innocence ...
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 |
G. E. Moore's Ethical Theory: Resistance and Reconciliation Brian Hutchinson Sin vista previa disponible - 2007 |
G. E. Moore's Ethical Theory: Resistance and Reconciliation Brian Hutchinson Sin vista previa disponible - 2001 |
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