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George Edward Moore Is Among This Century's Most Influential Philosophers. Perhaps Best Known For His Defense Of Common Sense, He Also Made Important Contributions To Metaphysics And Theory Of Knowledge. But It Is In Ethics, And Especially Owing To The Positions He Develops In His Principia Ethica, First Published In 1903, That His Ideas Have Had Their Most Enduring Influence.a Forerunner To This Famous Work, The Elements Of Ethics Is A Series Of Ten Unpublished Lectures That Were Presented By Moore, Then In His Mid-twenties. The Elements Shows That Principia Ethica Did Not Spring Fully-formed From Moore's Pen But Evolved Slowly Over Time. In These Lectures, Moore Begins With The Same Question He Asks In Principia Ethica: What Is Good? Importantly, His Answer Is The Same One He Offers In Principia And Many Of Its Supporting Arguments Also Appear, Though Sometimes In Embryonic Form. Moreover, In These Lectures We Also Find Sustained Critiques Of Those Who Commit The Naturalistic Fallacy, And Of John Stuart Mill's Commission Of It In Particular.in The Elements, However, Moore's Position Regarding Ethics In Relation To Conduct Differs In Important Respects From The One Presented In Pr

Author

G.E. Moore

Publisher

Temple University Press ; [Eurospan

Published

1991

Language

EN

ISBN

9781592131945

Subjects

Philosophy, Western, Humanities