G. E. Moore - Ethics

Ethics

Moore is also well known for the so-called "open question argument", which is contained in his (also greatly influential) Principia Ethica. The Principia is one of the main inspirations of the movement against ethical naturalism (see ethical non-naturalism) and is partly responsible for the twentieth-century concern with meta-ethics.

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