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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... human beings constantly jeopardize the plain awareness of objective value that is their birthright. He makes us ache at how much unhappiness we cause ourselves by letting the simple truth about good- ness, which should be nothing very ...
... human beings constantly jeopardize the plain awareness of objective value that is their birthright. He makes us ache at how much unhappiness we cause ourselves by letting the simple truth about good- ness, which should be nothing very ...
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... human and more plau- sibly sustained . The refusal of duly chastened philosophers to make use of grandiose notions will lead many nostalgic philosophers to worry that what is lack- ing in these accounts is just what is most important ...
... human and more plau- sibly sustained . The refusal of duly chastened philosophers to make use of grandiose notions will lead many nostalgic philosophers to worry that what is lack- ing in these accounts is just what is most important ...
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... human life - that no science can prove . 28 The first thing to say is that Moore would simply be bewildered upon being told that the fact that " individuals must judge for themselves " whether something is valuable is of any import ...
... human life - that no science can prove . 28 The first thing to say is that Moore would simply be bewildered upon being told that the fact that " individuals must judge for themselves " whether something is valuable is of any import ...
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... human beings to rise above the pig without suffering alien- ation and also allows philosophy and other refined modes of thought more freedom than views do that see them as engaged in the pursuit of truth. One might find that this makes ...
... human beings to rise above the pig without suffering alien- ation and also allows philosophy and other refined modes of thought more freedom than views do that see them as engaged in the pursuit of truth. One might find that this makes ...
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... human condition one of bewilderment and woe. But it does leave open the hope that we all have moments of peace when, with guards down, we find ourselves humbly ac- cepting the reality of goodness and the world's many good things. 1 ...
... human condition one of bewilderment and woe. But it does leave open the hope that we all have moments of peace when, with guards down, we find ourselves humbly ac- cepting the reality of goodness and the world's many good things. 1 ...
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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