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• dvt · Apr 11, 2020 · Recommends

  G.E. Moore didn't disappear from history. His Ethics (1907) and Principia Ethica (1903) both remain widely cited. His naturalistic fallacy remains a major tour de force in ethics[1], and his moral "super-objectivism" was studied and critiqued throughout the 1900s by every heavy hitter…

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• hilbert42 · Feb 19, 2021 · Recommends

  …deals with knowledge, reason, human reasoning, and empirical reason. One cannot ignore Kant or does so at his/her peril, (perhaps this book is better left until you've a fuller grasp of the subject). 17. Principia Ethica—G. E. Moore (George Edward) Prof of Phil., Cambridge, UK at turn of the 20th Century. Since it was published in 1903 Principia Ethica has had a huge influence on philosophers and still does (incl. yours…

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• hilbert42 · Dec 5, 2020 · Recommends

  …world where traditional ethics has gone off the rails, the study of ethics is absolutely essential. The key person to study here is the English philosopher G. E. Moore, and the definitive text is Moore's Principia ethica. 7e. Philosophy of Language. an ancient branch of philosophy which gained prominence in the last century under Wittgenstein. Basically it's concerned with how our languages affect our thought. Classic…

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• hilbert42 · Aug 26, 2022 · Mentions

  Having been brought up on G.E. Moore's Principia Ethica not to mention the work of Russell and Whitehead I'd have to say what I said as a first-pass comment. However I agree with you, things are never quite as simple as they seem when one grinds them fine,…

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• hilbert42 · Apr 11, 2020 · Mentions

  "G.E. Moore didn't disappear from history. His Ethics (1907) and Principia Ethica (1903) both remain widely cited." Correct, G.E. Moore certainly didn't disappear from history. I still have my copy of Principia Ethica that was drummed into me in Phil. classes at university decades…

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• hilbert42 · Aug 25, 2021 · Mentions

  Right, true. Hovever, the matter of goodness/ethics, etc. is probably best summed up by G.E. Moore in his 1903 work Principia Ethica: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Principia_Ethica

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• hilbert42 · Feb 23, 2025 · Mentions

  …engineering. It's thus fair to say the analytical philosophers and their ilk have had a strong influence on my thinking—Frege, Whitehead, Russell, Wittgenstein, and G.E. Moore—I can even see my copy of Principia Ethica on the bookshelf on the other side of the room from where I'm sitting. (BTW, In my world I cannot see any relevant connection between number theory (as mathematicians understand it) and ethics.) The…

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• christudor · Jun 23, 2025 · Mentions

  G. E. Moore (in his Principia Ethica, 1903) makes a very similar case to this relation to consequentialist ethics: "The first difficulty in the way of establishing a probability that one course of action will give a better total result…

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• hilbert42 · Mar 7, 2025 · Mentions

  …themselves have no universally-accepted 'truths'. Moreover, with philosophy, linguistics, semantics and even its epistemological underpinnings—the theory of knowledge—continue to be subject of argument. In Principia Ethica G.E. Moore questions the foundations of ethics. One can't put a measure on "good", similarly, one can't explain or convey a sense of "yellow" to someone who's been blind from birth. In his books Language,…

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