G. E. Moore's Ethical Theory
G. E. Moore's Ethical Theory

Author: Brian Hutchinson

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2007-07-19

Total Pages: 228

ISBN-13: 9780521037822

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This is the first comprehensive study of the ethics of G. E. Moore, the most important English-speaking ethicist of the 20th century. Moore's ethical project, set out in his seminal text the Principia Ethica is to preserve common moral insight from skepticism and, in effect, persuade his readers to accept the objective character of goodness. Brian Hutchinson explores Moore's arguments in detail, showing Moore's ethical work to be much richer and more sophisticated than his critics have acknowledged.

G. E. Moore: Early Philosophical Writings
G. E. Moore: Early Philosophical Writings

Author: Thomas Baldwin

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2015-10-01

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781107559349

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G. E. Moore's fame as a philosopher rests on his ethics of love and beauty, which inspired Bloomsbury, and on his 'common sense' certainties which challenge abstract philosophical theory. Behind this lies his critical engagement with Kant's idealist philosophy, which is published here for the first time. These early writings, Moore's fellowship dissertations of 1897 and 1898, show how he initiated his influential break with idealism. In 1897 his main target was Kant's ethics, but by 1898 it was the whole Kantian project of transcendental philosophy that he rejected, and the theory which he developed to replace it gave rise to the new project of philosophy as logical analysis. This edition includes comments by Moore's examiners Henry Sidgwick, Edward Caird and Bernard Bosanquet, and in a substantial introduction the editors explore the crucial importance of the dissertations to the history of twentieth-century philosophical thought.

The Routledge Guidebook to Moore's Principia Ethica
The Routledge Guidebook to Moore's Principia Ethica

Author: Susana Nuccetelli

Publisher: Routledge Guides to the Great Books

Published: 2021-11-17

Total Pages: 282

ISBN-13: 9781138818484

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G.E. Moore's Principia Ethica is a landmark publication in twentieth-century moral philosophy. Through focusing on the origin and evolution of his main doctrines, this guidebook makes it clear that Moore was an innovator whose provocative take on traditional philosophical problems ignited heated debates among philosophers. Principia Ethica is an important text for those attempting to understand and engage with some major philosophical debates in ethics today. The Routledge Guidebook to Moore's Principia Ethica provides a comprehensive introduction to this historic text, examining key Moorean themes including: ethical non-naturalism the naturalistic fallacy the Open Question Argument moral ontology and epistemology ideal utilitarianism vindictive punishment and organicity moral intuition for epistemic justification in ethics theory of value Ideal for anyone wanting to understand and gain perspective on Moore's seminal work, the book is essential reading for students of moral philosophy, metaethics, normative ethics, philosophical analysis, and related fields.

The Knowledge of Good
The Knowledge of Good

Author: Robert S. Hartman

Publisher: Rodopi

Published: 2002

Total Pages: 500

ISBN-13: 9789042012202

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This book presents Robert S. Hartman's formal theory of value and critically examines many other twentieth century value theorists in its light, including A.J. Ayer, Kurt Baier, Brand Blanshard, Paul Edwards, Albert Einstein, William K. Frankena, R.M. Hare, Nicolai Hartmann, Martin Heidegger, G.E. Moore, P.H. Nowell-Smith, Jose Ortega y Gasset, Charles Stevenson, Paul W. Taylor, Stephen E. Toulmin, and J.O. Urmson. Open Access funding for this volume has been provided by the Robert S. Hartman Institute.

G. E. Moore's Intuitionism. a Highly Implausible Meta-Ethical Position
G. E. Moore's Intuitionism. a Highly Implausible Meta-Ethical Position

Author: Mark Costello

Publisher:

Published: 2017-06-06

Total Pages: 16

ISBN-13: 9783668447400

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Essay from the year 2016 in the subject Philosophy - Miscellaneous, grade: 71, Trinity College Dublin (The Department of Philosophy), course: TSM Philosophy, language: English, abstract: This paper will aim to outline G. E. Moore's defence in "Principia Ethica" of the view that goodness and consequently moral truth is indefinable. This paper will firstly outline a picture of the autonomous indefinable nature of goodness through Moore's open-question argument and naturalistic fallacy and will then proceed to critique this characterisation by highlighting the subsequent problematic consequences that accompany the proposed indefinability. The paper will then detail Moore's ensuing intuitive meta-ethical theory after which I will argue that the meta-ethical picture that Moore constructs is entirely implausible due to the proposed self-evident nature of moral truths and the vague faculty of intuition that it implies.

Ethics
Ethics

Author: G. E. Moore

Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand

Published: 2023-09-30

Total Pages: 258

ISBN-13: 3368199811

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Reprint of the original, first published in 1873.

Utilitarianism
Utilitarianism

Author: J. J. C. Smart

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 1973

Total Pages: 162

ISBN-13: 9780521098229

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A serious and controversial work in which the authors contribute essays from opposite points of view on utilitarian assumptions, arguments and ideals.

Utopia
Utopia

Author: Thomas More

Publisher: e-artnow

Published: 2019-04-08

Total Pages: 105

ISBN-13: 8027303583

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Utopia is a work of fiction and socio-political satire by Thomas More published in 1516 in Latin. The book is a frame narrative primarily depicting a fictional island society and its religious, social and political customs. Many aspects of More's description of Utopia are reminiscent of life in monasteries.

The Oxford Handbook of Assertion
The Oxford Handbook of Assertion

Author: Sanford Goldberg

Publisher:

Published: 2020

Total Pages: 903

ISBN-13: 0190675233

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The Oxford Handbook of Assertion explores philosophical themes pertaining to the speech act of assertion: the nature of assertion, assertion's place among the speech acts, empirical issues in theories of assertion, assertion's role in semantics and metasemantics, the place of assertion in the epistemology of testimony, and the social and ethical dimensions of assertion.