G.E. Moore's Ethical Theory : Resistance and Reconciliation

Minor rubbing. Light binding corner bumps. VG. Ethical Philosophy Cambridge University Press Cambridge (2001) orig.cloth 23x15cm, viii,219 pp, Some light binding soil. Contents: Simplicity, Indefinability, Nonnaturalness; Lay of the Land; The Argument for Indefinability; Good's Nonnaturalness; Background; Later Refinements and Problems; Final Refinements; The Paradox of Ethics and Its Resolution; The Status of Ethics: Dimming the Future & Brightening the Past; The Origin of the Awareness of Good & the Theory of Common Sense; Moore's Argument Against Egoism; Against a Metaphysical Self; The Contradiction of Egoism; Moore on Sidgwick ; The Diagnosis of Egoism & the Consequences; Moore's Practical & Political Philosophy: Necessary Rules; Nonnecessary Rules; Moore's Conservatism; Moore's Cosmic Conservatism; The Dialectic of Innocence; Moore's Diagnosis; Critique of Religion; Cosmic Conservatism; Art between Politics & Religion; Moore's Solution & Its Consequences. ["This is the first comprehensive study of the ethics of G. E. Moore, the most important English-speaking ethicist of the twentieth century. 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. Moore was, without perhaps fully realizing it, skeptical about the very enterprise of philosophy itself, and in this regard, as Brian Hutchinson reveals, was much closer in his thinking to Wittgenstein than has been previously realized.,." - Publisher's description]