{"product_id":"g-e-moores-ethical-theory-resistance-and-reconciliation-paperback-9780521037822","title":"G. E. Moore's Ethical Theory; Resistance and Reconciliation (Paperback \/ softback) 9780521037822","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eG. E. Moore's Ethical Theory\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eResistance and Reconciliation\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eA comprehensive 2001 study of the ethics of G. E. Moore, the most important English-speaking ethicist of the twentieth century.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eBrian Hutchinson (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9780521037822, Cambridge University Press\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003ePaperback \/ softback, published 19 July 2007\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e228 pages\u003cbr\u003e22.8 x 15.1 x 1.2 cm, 0.352 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\"This book is one of the best on the history of ethics -- and arguably, on ethical theory more generally--to appear in many years.  Readers should consider whether either of these two statements is even an understatement.\"   Review of Metaphysics\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eThis 2001 book is a 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 scepticism 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-sceptical epistemology. Moore was, without perhaps fully realizing it, sceptical 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. This book shows Moore's ethical work to be much richer and more sophisticated than his critics have acknowledged.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eIntroduction: irony, naïveté and Moore\u003cbr\u003e 1. Simplicity, indefinability, non-naturalness\u003cbr\u003e 2. Good's non-naturalness\u003cbr\u003e 3. The paradox of ethics and its resolution\u003cbr\u003e 4. The status of ethics: dimming the future and brightening the past\u003cbr\u003e 5. The origin of the awareness of good and the theory of common sense\u003cbr\u003e 6. Moore's argument against egoism\u003cbr\u003e 7. The diagnosis of egoism and the consequences of its rejection\u003cbr\u003e 8. Moore's practical and political philosophy\u003cbr\u003e 9. Moore's cosmic conservatism\u003cbr\u003e 10. Cosmic conservatism II\u003cbr\u003e Bibliography\u003cbr\u003e Index.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eSubject Areas: History of Western philosophy [\u003ca title=\"See our other books on History of Western philosophy\" href=\"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/search?q=%22History%20of%20Western%20philosophy%20%5BHPC%5D%22\"\u003eHPC\u003c\/a\u003e]\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Cambridge University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46005551038744,"sku":"9780521037822","price":29.29,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0730\/2037\/5320\/products\/9780521037822i_9b61c36a-17eb-463f-bd5d-0e90fdae9f62.jpg?v=1694968446","url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/g-e-moores-ethical-theory-resistance-and-reconciliation-paperback-9780521037822","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}