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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... Indefinability , Nonnaturalness Lay of the Land 2 The Argument for Indefinability Good's Nonnaturalness Background Later Refinements and Problems Final Refinements 3 The Paradox of Ethics and Its Resolution The Paradox of Ethics ...
... Indefinability , Nonnaturalness Lay of the Land 2 The Argument for Indefinability Good's Nonnaturalness Background Later Refinements and Problems Final Refinements 3 The Paradox of Ethics and Its Resolution The Paradox of Ethics ...
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... indefinability protects the moral judg- ment of the individual from encroachment by moral science . He writes : At the deepest level it is the autonomy of individual judgment about what has in- trinsic value . . . that Moore ...
... indefinability protects the moral judg- ment of the individual from encroachment by moral science . He writes : At the deepest level it is the autonomy of individual judgment about what has in- trinsic value . . . that Moore ...
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... indefinability of its fundamental term . But Moore insists that whether their terms be inde- finable or definable , a great many nonmoral judgments are also unprov- able.29 And even though they are unprovable , since the moral judgments ...
... indefinability of its fundamental term . But Moore insists that whether their terms be inde- finable or definable , a great many nonmoral judgments are also unprov- able.29 And even though they are unprovable , since the moral judgments ...
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... guards down, we find ourselves humbly ac- cepting the reality of goodness and the world's many good things. 1 Simplicity, Indefinability, Nonnaturalness Lay of the Land The revolution introduction: irony, naïveté, and moore 15.
... guards down, we find ourselves humbly ac- cepting the reality of goodness and the world's many good things. 1 Simplicity, Indefinability, Nonnaturalness Lay of the Land The revolution introduction: irony, naïveté, and moore 15.
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... indefinability, with indefinability being much the more important of the two. He appeals mostly to nonnaturalness to explain why philosophers have failed to grant good its independence. Moore's official views are that to be simple is to ...
... indefinability, with indefinability being much the more important of the two. He appeals mostly to nonnaturalness to explain why philosophers have failed to grant good its independence. Moore's official views are that to be simple is to ...
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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