
Moral Philosophy Of Moore.
Title:
Moral Philosophy Of Moore.
Author:
Sylvester, Robert.
ISBN:
9781439901694
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Physical Description:
1 online resource (256 pages)
Contents:
Contents -- Editors' Introduction -- Foreword -- Author's Preface -- I. Good: The Value Predicate -- II. Intuition (I): A First Look -- III. Intuition (II): A Second Look -- IV. Value Judgment: The General Theory -- V. Judgments in Particular Contexts -- VI. Ontology and Non-natural Qualities -- VII. Fact and Value: The Logic of Moral Discourse -- VIII. Choice, Consciousness, and Freedom: The Moral Self -- Notes -- Index.
Abstract:
This study of G. E. Moore's work in moral philosophy draws upon a close examination of the early essays that preceded the writing of Principia Ethica in order to ground the author's view that Moore's famous "naturalistic fallacy argument" of Principia has been widely misunderstood. At the time of his death in 1986, Robert Peter Sylvester was in the process of preparing this book for publication. That process has been brought to completion by Ray Perkins, Jr., and R. W. Sleeper. Sylvester's reappraisal of the moral philosophy of G. E. Moore argues that criticism of the work of this major twentieth-century British philosopher has been based on misinterpretation of his unified position. He treats Moore's ideas about "What is Good?", "What things are Good?" and "What ought we to do?" as forming a coherent system. To bring this work up to date since the author's death, the editors have provided a bibliographic essay following each chapter in which recent scholarship is discussed.
Local Note:
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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