George Edward Moore
(London, 1873-Cambridge, United Kingdom, 1958) British philosopher.He studied at Cambridge, where Bertrand Russell guided him to the study of philosophy.He was a professor at the same university between 1911 and 1939, when he retired and left his chair to Wittgenstein, whose philosophy he had followed with interest.
George Edward Moore
Moore took up the tradition of Anglo-Saxon realism against the idealistic climate of the beginning of the century, to which he opposed a series of everyday truths or common sense, such as the existence of time or objects outside one's own consciousness.
As he stated in his Refutation of Idealism (1903), Moore understood that the ignorance of these truths caused undesirable effects even for the most idealistic of philosophers, such as the denial of the other consciences (solipsism).It further questioned the criterion according to which the philosopher ultimately gave more credence to the premise of his own skeptical argument than to the premises of common sense.
In his best known work, the Principia ethica (1903), he defended that the good was a simple and unanalyzable quality, and accused any definition of the good that could be proposed of what he called the "naturalistic fallacy," that is, offering a definition of good in terms of something else (pleasure, utility, etc.), which does not exhaust the sense in which the word is commonly used.According to him, what the term good means must be understood intuitively.
Moore's analyzes are at the basis of what later became known as the philosophy of ordinary language, which was developed at Cambridge and Oxford.
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