Principia Ethica
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Principia Ethica is a foundational 1903 work in moral philosophy by G. E. Moore that helped launch analytic ethics through its defense of ethical non-naturalism and the “open question” argument.
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| instanceOf |
book
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ethics book → philosophical work → |
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evolutionary ethics as a justification of moral value
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hedonism as a complete account of value → |
| author |
G. E. Moore
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George Edward Moore → |
| countryOfOrigin |
United Kingdom
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| genre |
ethics
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moral philosophy → |
| hasPart |
Chapter 1: The Subject-Matter of Ethics
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Chapter 2: Naturalistic Ethics → Chapter 3: Hedonism → Chapter 4: The Ideal → Chapter 5: Ethics in Relation to Conduct → Chapter 6: The Ideal as Intrinsically Good → |
| hasPhilosophicalStance |
intuitionism about intrinsic value
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moral realism → |
| historicalSignificance |
canonical text in meta-ethics
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helped launch analytic ethics → |
| influenced |
20th-century moral philosophy
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C. D. Broad → H. A. Prichard → W. D. Ross → analytic ethics → non-naturalist moral realism → the Bloomsbury Group → |
| introducesConcept |
naturalistic fallacy
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open question argument → |
| language |
English
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| libraryOfCongressClassification |
BJ1012 .M8 1903
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| mainThesis |
ethical properties are not reducible to natural properties
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good is a simple, non-natural property → the naturalistic fallacy invalidly identifies good with any natural property → |
| mainTopic |
ethical non-naturalism
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goodness → meta-ethics → open question argument → |
| philosophicalMovement |
analytic philosophy
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| positionOnEthicalNaturalism |
rejects ethical naturalism
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| positionOnGood |
treats good as a non-natural property
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treats good as indefinable → |
| positionOnMoralJudgments |
supports cognitivism about moral judgments
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| proposes |
method of isolation for determining intrinsic value
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| publicationYear |
1903
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| publisher |
Cambridge University Press
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| relatedWork |
Principia Mathematica
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| titleMeaning |
Latin for Principles of Ethics
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G. E. Moore
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Principia Mathematica
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relatedWork |