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Mar 26, 2004 · George Edward Moore. G.E. Moore (1873-1958) (who hated his first names, ‘George Edward’ and never used them — his wife called him ‘Bill’) was an important British philosopher of the first half of the twentieth century. He was one of the trinity of philosophers at Trinity College Cambridge (the others were Bertrand Russell and Ludwig ...
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Jan 26, 2005 · Moore thought an important bar to this view is the naturalistic fallacy. He assumed, plausibly, that philosophers who treat goodness as identical to some natural property will usually make this a simple property, such as just pleasure or just evolutionary fitness, rather than a disjunctive one such as pleasure-or-evolutionary-fitness-or-knowledge.
Jan 26, 2005 · If Sidgwick’s non-naturalism did not involve a problematic metaphysics and epistemology, neither did Moore’s; if Moore’s was hopelessly extravagant, so was a supposedly more modest one like Sidgwick’s. A final important feature of Moore’s metaethics was its reductionism about normative concepts.
George Edward Moore (1873—1958) G. E. Moore was a highly influential British philosopher of the early twentieth century. His career was spent mainly at Cambridge University, where he taught alongside Bertrand Russell and, later, Ludwig Wittgenstein. The period of their overlap there has been called the “golden age” of Cambridge philosophy.
Apr 3, 2020 · Leonard Woolf has described how listening to an argument between Moore and Russell “was like watching a race between the hare and the tortoise.” But, “Quite often the tortoise won—and that, of course, was why Russell’s thought had been so deeply influenced by Moore and why he still came to Moore’s rooms to discuss difficult problems.”
Feb 22, 2024 · Moore is speaking from a pre-philosophical position. He considers what might be said in favor of skepticism and asks whether there is any reason for him to change his view. Finding none, he rejects skepticism. Any epistemological theorizing is, for him, a downstream inquiry subsequent to this refutation of skepticism.
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Henry Moore was probably the quintessential British sculptor of the 20 th century. Non-Western art was crucial in shaping his early work, leading European modernists were later influences, and Moore united these inspirations was a deeply felt humanism. He returned again and again to the motifs of the mother and child, and the reclining figure ...
