G.E. Moore's ethical theory : resistance and reconciliation.

Door: Hutchinson, Brian.

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• ISBN: 9780521800556
• Uitgever: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2001. Hardcover. Dustjacket. 219 pp. Includes bibliographical references (p. [211]-214) and index. Conditie: als nieuw
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• Details: Conditie: als nieuw. PHILOSOPHY
• Extra informatie: - Contents : 1 Simplicity, Indefinability, Non-naturalness -- Lay of the Land -- The Argument for Indefinability 2 Good's Non-naturalness -- Background -- -\: Later Refinements and Problems -- Final Refinements 3 The Paradox of Ethics and Its Resolution -- The Paradox of Ethics -- Resolution of the Paradox 4 The Status of Ethics: Dimming the Future and -- Brightening the Past -- Dimming the Future -- Brightening the Past 5 The Origin of the Awareness of Good and the Theory -- of Common Sense -- The Origin of Our Awareness of Good -- Saving Common Sense 6 Moore's Argument Against Egoism -- Introduction -- Against a Metaphysical Self -- The Contradcton of Egoism , -- Moore on Sidgwick - 7 The Diagnosis of Egoism and the Consequences 8 Moore's Practical and Political Philosophy -- Introduction -- Necessary Rules -- Nonnecessary Rules -- Moore's Conservatism 9 Moore's Cosmic Conservatism -- The Dialectic of Innocence -- Moore's Diagnosis -- Critique of Religion 1o Cosmic Conservatism II -- Art between Politics and Religion -- Moore's Solution and Its Consequences Bibliography Index. This is a comprehensive study of the ethics of G.E. Moore. Moore's ethical project, set out in his seminal text 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 and in the process relates the ethical thought to Moore's anti-skeptical epistemology
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