Brian Hutchinson

G. E. Moore's Ethical Theory

Resistance and Reconciliation

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

A comprehensive 2001 study of the ethics of G. E. Moore, the most important English-speaking ethicist of the twentieth century.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 228
• Erscheinungstermin: 28. Mai 2012
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 527g
• ISBN-13: 9780521800556
• ISBN-10: 0521800552
• Artikelnr.: 24254874

Autorenporträt

Brian (Hutch) Hutchinson: acrobat, musician (sax/clarinet), civil servant, special advisor to cabinet minister, music business executive, theatrical agent, recording studio partner, record factory managing director, director Brixton Business Centre/Brixton City Challenge, general manager on secondment with the Diana, Princess of Wales Memorial Fund, patron Macmillan Academy Teesside, independent assessor for commissioner for (ministerial) public appointments, corporate affairs director Allied Zurich Plc, chair UK trustees International Fund for Animal Welfare, former trustee National Centre for Circus Arts.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: irony, naïveté and Moore
1. Simplicity, indefinability, non-naturalness
2. Good's non-naturalness
3. The paradox of ethics and its resolution
4. The status of ethics: dimming the future and brightening the past
5. The origin of the awareness of good and the theory of common sense
6. Moore's argument against egoism
7. The diagnosis of egoism and the consequences of its rejection
8. Moore's practical and political philosophy
9. Moore's cosmic conservatism
10. Cosmic conservatism II
Bibliography
Index.