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Principia Ethica (PE) was first published in 1903 and it is still in print today. I would think that there is hardly an introductory university course in ethics that could do without some mention of it. Moore says in the preface that the book is intended to sort two kinds of questions. “The two questions may be expressed, the first in the form: What kind of things ought to exist for their own sakes? the second in the form: What kind of actions ought we to perform?” In this preface he says the “O
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This is a key work by one of the founders of the contemporary Analytic tradition in Philosophy. In this best loved work, Principia Ethica, G. E. Moore argues for a common sense approach to ethics that is given the name of “ethical naturalism.”
In "ethical naturalism," ethical decisions are based not on idealized or abstract principles, like some n ...more
Read this and reviews of other classics in Western Philosophy on the History page of www.BestPhilosophyBooks.org (a thinkPhilosophy Production).
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This is a key work by one of the founders of the contemporary Analytic tradition in Philosophy. In this best loved work, Principia Ethica, G. E. Moore argues for a common sense approach to ethics that is given the name of “ethical naturalism.”
In "ethical naturalism," ethical decisions are based not on idealized or abstract principles, like some n ...more
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