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George Edward Moore OM FBA (4 November 1873 – 24 October 1958) was an English philosopher, who with Bertrand Russell, Ludwig Wittgenstein and earlier Gottlob Frege was among the initiators of analytic philosophy.
- Dorothy Ely
- Trinity College, Cambridge, (B.A., 1896)
- Nicholas Moore, Timothy Moore
Mar 26, 2004 · G.E. Moore (1873-1958) (who hated his first names, ‘George Edward’ and never used them — his wife called him ‘Bill’) was an important British philosopher of the first half of the twentieth century. He was one of the trinity of philosophers at Trinity College Cambridge (the others were Bertrand Russell and Ludwig Wittgenstein) who made ...
Mar 27, 2024 · G. E. Moore (born Nov. 4, 1873, London, Eng.—died Oct. 24, 1958, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire) was an influential British Realist philosopher and professor whose systematic approach to ethical problems and remarkably meticulous approach to philosophy made him an outstanding modern British thinker.
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
A comprehensive biography of the influential British philosopher who founded analytic philosophy and defended commonsense realism. Learn about his main contributions to metaphysics, epistemology, ethics, and methodology, as well as his influence on academic and non-academic philosophy.
Principia Ethica is a book written in 1903 by British philosopher, G. E. Moore. Moore questions a fundamental pillar of ethics, specifically what the definition of "good" is. He concludes that "good" is indefinable because any attempts to do so commit the naturalistic fallacy.
- October 1903
- Cambridge University Press
Jan 26, 2005 · G.E. Moore’s Principia Ethica of 1903 is often considered a revolutionary work that set a new agenda for 20 th-century ethics. This historical view is, however, somewhat overstated.
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Introduction. G. E. Moore (b. 1873–d. 1958) is credited, along with Bertrand Russell, for doing the most in the early 20th century to weaken the hold of idealism on English language philosophy and for advancing the method of analysis, which through its many permutations can be considered still to be the prevailing way of doing philosophy in ...
