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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... less robust than his own. Some, such as A. J. Ayer, while finding much to praise in his making clarity the sine qua non of intellectual seriousness, dismissed his positive views with a sneer. Others, like C. L. Stevenson, posing as one ...
... less robust than his own. Some, such as A. J. Ayer, while finding much to praise in his making clarity the sine qua non of intellectual seriousness, dismissed his positive views with a sneer. Others, like C. L. Stevenson, posing as one ...
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... less old than the Review. While celebrating the one “without reserve” they wonder whether they should be “equally happy about the continuing vitality of the other.” They worry that “Moore's accident-prone deployment of his ...
... less old than the Review. While celebrating the one “without reserve” they wonder whether they should be “equally happy about the continuing vitality of the other.” They worry that “Moore's accident-prone deployment of his ...
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... less than they are . Likely , it was this re- markable cast of mind that also enabled Moore , of all those who knew Wittgenstein , to take his measure most accurately for philosophy , to in- dulge in neither hysterical denunciation nor ...
... less than they are . Likely , it was this re- markable cast of mind that also enabled Moore , of all those who knew Wittgenstein , to take his measure most accurately for philosophy , to in- dulge in neither hysterical denunciation nor ...
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... less troubling by the simple expediency of having the “ objective , categorical demands . . . ul- timately issue from deep within the moral agent ” rather than from the " external " " metaphysical order . " 24 Surely , the skeptic's ...
... less troubling by the simple expediency of having the “ objective , categorical demands . . . ul- timately issue from deep within the moral agent ” rather than from the " external " " metaphysical order . " 24 Surely , the skeptic's ...
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... less likely to think that truisms about how each of us is accultur- ated into some particular ethical scheme both render us credulous with regard to that scheme and incapable of understanding any other. Moore was never so naïve as to ...
... less likely to think that truisms about how each of us is accultur- ated into some particular ethical scheme both render us credulous with regard to that scheme and incapable of understanding any other. Moore was never so naïve as 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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