G. E. Moore
Subtitle: Early Philosophical Writings
By: edited and with an introduction by Thomas Baldwin and Consuelo Preti
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Cambridge
Language: eng
Number of pages: 338
ISBN-13: 9780521190145
Subjects: PHILOSOPHY / History & Surveys / Modern
Description: "G. E. Moore's fame as a philosopher rests on his ethics of love and beauty, which inspired Bloomsbury, and on his 'common sense' certainties, which challenge abstract philosophical theory. Behind these themes lie his critical engagement with Kant's idealist philosophy, which is published here for the first time. These early writings, Moore's fellowship dissertations of 1897 and 1898, show how he initiated his influential break with idealism. In 1897 his main target was Kant's ethics; but by 1898 it was the whole Kantian project of transcendental philosophy that he rejected, and the theory which he developed to replace it gave rise to the new project of philosophy as logical analysis. This edition includes comments by Moore's examiners, Henry Sidgwick, Edward Caird and Bernard Bosanquet, and in a substantial introduction the editors explore the crucial importance of the dissertations to the history of twentieth-century philosophical thought"--
Notes: Includes index.
Table of contents: title: Machine generated contents note: 1. Editors' introduction; 2. Moore's 1897 dissertation; 3. Reports by Sidgwick and Caird; 4. Moore's 1898 dissertation; 5. Report by Bosanquet.