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Principia Ethica

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Principia Ethica

George Edward Moore

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Good, Moore argues, cannot be defined, and twentieth-century philosophy never recovered. Principia Ethica dismantles naturalistic ethics, hedonism, and metaphysical ethics in turn, then sketches the ideal: friendship and beauty at the summit of value. The founding text of modern analytic ethics, and Bloomsbury's favorite philosophy book. Read the argument that changed the subject.

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10 chapters

  1. 1PRINCIPIA ETHICA
  2. 2PREFACE.
  3. 3TABLE OF CONTENTS.
  4. 4CHAPTER I. THE SUBJECT-MATTER OF ETHICS.
  5. 5CHAPTER II. NATURALISTIC ETHICS.
  6. 6CHAPTER III. HEDONISM.
  7. 7CHAPTER IV. METAPHYSICAL ETHICS.
  8. 8CHAPTER V. ETHICS IN RELATION TO CONDUCT.
  9. 9CHAPTER VI. THE IDEAL.
  10. 10INDEX.
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