The metaphysical basis of ethics : G.E. Moore and the origins of analytic philosophy / Consuelo Preti.
Preti, Consuelo, author.
2021
B808.5 .P74 2021
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Title The metaphysical basis of ethics : G.E. Moore and the origins of analytic philosophy / Consuelo Preti.
Author Preti, Consuelo, author.
ISBN 9781137319074 (electronic bk.)
1137319070 (electronic bk.)
9780230277625
0230277624
DOI https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-31907-4
Published [Cham] : Palgrave Macmillan, [2021]
Language English
Description 1 online resource
Item Number 10.1057/978-1-137-31907-4 doi
Call Number B808.5 .P74 2021
Dewey Decimal Classification 146/.4
Summary This book remedies the absence in the history of analytic philosophy of a detailed examination of G.E. Moores philosophical views as they developed between 1894 and 1902. This period saw the inauguration of analytic philosophy through the work of Moore and Bertrand Russell. Moores early views are examined in detail through unpublished archival material, including surviving letters, diaries, notes of lectures attended, papers for Cambridge societies, and drafts of early work, in order to revise the established view that the origin of analytic philosophy at Cambridge was an abrupt split from F.H. Bradleys Absolute Idealism. Traditional accounts of this period have highlighted the anti-psychologism of Freges logic but have not explored the impact of this movement more broadly. Anti-psychologism was a key feature of the work of Moores teachers on the nature of the mind and its objects, in their interpretation of Kant, and in ethics. Moores teachers G.F. Stout and James Ward were significant contributors to the late 19th century debates in mental science and the developing new science of psychology. Henry Sidgwicks criticisms of Kant and Bradley and his leading work in ethics were key influences on Moore. Moores Trinity Fellowship Dissertations are essential historical evidence of the development of Moore's new theory of judgment, a theory whose defining role in the origins of analytic philosophy cannot be overstated. Moores study of Kant in his dissertations ultimately formed the groundwork for his Principia Ethica (1903), which evolved from ideas that manifested in Moores earliest Apostles papers, developed through his dissertations, and were refined through his Elements of Ethics lectures (1898-99). This monumental work of early twentieth century ethics is thus shown to be the culmination of Moores early philosophical development.
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Series History of analytic philosophy.
Available in Other Form METAPHYSICAL BASIS OF ETHICS.
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1. Mental Science and Moral Science in 19th Century Cambridge
2. Moores Early Philosophical Development
3. Moral Science and Ethical Systems: Sidgwicks Influence on Moore
4. The Metaphysical Basis of Ethics.

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