LECTURE 6.2: MOORE Flashcards
He is an intuition and analytic philosopher from Cambridge.
George Edward Moore
Timeline of Moore
1873 - 1958
Moore’s Principia Ethica was published in when?
1903
This is the direct or immediate apprehension of knowledge as self-evident truths.
Intuition
“I believe the good to be ______ and yet still say that good, itself, is _______.”
definable ; indefinable
“A ________ states what are the parts which invariably compose a certain whole; and it is in this sense that ‘good’ has no ________ because it is simple and has no parts.”
definition ; definition
This denotes a simple and unanalyzable property which is indefinable.
Good
This is any attempt to equate good with any other term.
Naturalistic Fallacy