G.E. Moore
G.E.
Moore was a British philosopher (1873–1958) whose work shaped analytic philosophy and ethics.
He argued in *Principia Ethica* that "good" is indefinable—attempts to define it commit the naturalistic fallacy.
His "here is one hand" argument defended common sense against radical skepticism.
Moore influenced the Bloomsbury Group and generations of Cambridge philosophers.
- goodSatisfactory in quality
- logical analysisMethodical examination of reasoning
- intrinsic valueWorth independent of circumstance
- indefinabilityCannot be precisely described
- certaintyTotal absence of doubt
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- British PhilosophyJohn Locke, Bertrand Russell, David Hume, John Stuart Mill, Thomas Hobbes
- British ThinkersBertrand Russell, John Locke, David Hume, Thomas Hobbes, Francis Bacon
- Cambridge AlumniIsaac Newton, Charles Darwin, Stephen Hawking, Alan Turing, Bertrand Russell
- EthicistsAristotle, Kant, Immanuel Kant, Bentham, Mill
- philosophersAristotle, Plato, Socrates, Kant, Descartes
- Analytic PhilosophyBertrand Russell, Vienna Circle, linguistic analysis, A.J. Ayer, logical analysis
philosophical tradition
G.E. MooreJean-Paul Sartre
"Nausea" penned him
Friedrich Nietzsche · existentialists · phenomenologists · Henri Bergson