George Edward Moore (4 November 1873 – 24 October 1958), usually cited as G.
A humanist, he served as President of the British Ethical Union (now known as Humanists UK) from 1935 to 1936. ==Life== Moore was born in Upper Norwood, in south-east London, on 4 November 1873, the middle child of seven of Dr Daniel Moore and Henrietta Sturge.
His eldest brother was Thomas Sturge Moore, a poet, writer and engraver. He was educated at Dulwich College and in 1892 went up to Trinity College, Cambridge, to study classics and moral sciences.
He was a member of the Cambridge Apostles, the intellectual secret society, from 1894 to 1901, and chairman of the Cambridge University Moral Sciences Club from 1912 to 1944.
He became a Fellow of Trinity in 1898, and went on to hold the University of Cambridge chair of Mental Philosophy and Logic, from 1925 to 1939. Moore is best known today for his defence of ethical non-naturalism, his emphasis on common sense in philosophical method, and the paradox that bears his name.
He was a member of the Cambridge Apostles, the intellectual secret society, from 1894 to 1901, and chairman of the Cambridge University Moral Sciences Club from 1912 to 1944.
Moore, Philosophical Studies (1922) [papers published 1903–21] * G.
Moore, Some Main Problems of Philosophy (1953) [lectures delivered 1910–11] * G.
He was a member of the Cambridge Apostles, the intellectual secret society, from 1894 to 1901, and chairman of the Cambridge University Moral Sciences Club from 1912 to 1944.
He was elected a fellow of the British Academy in 1918.
I have never felt such an extravagant admiration for anybody." From 1918 to 1919 he was president of the Aristotelian Society, a group committed to the systematic study of philosophy, its historical development and its methods and problems. G.
I have never felt such an extravagant admiration for anybody." From 1918 to 1919 he was president of the Aristotelian Society, a group committed to the systematic study of philosophy, its historical development and its methods and problems. G.
He became a Fellow of Trinity in 1898, and went on to hold the University of Cambridge chair of Mental Philosophy and Logic, from 1925 to 1939. Moore is best known today for his defence of ethical non-naturalism, his emphasis on common sense in philosophical method, and the paradox that bears his name.
In his 1925 essay "A Defence of Common Sense", he argued against idealism and scepticism toward the external world, on the grounds that they could not give reasons to accept that their metaphysical premises were more plausible than the reasons we have for accepting the common sense claims about our knowledge of the world, which sceptics and idealists must deny.
A humanist, he served as President of the British Ethical Union (now known as Humanists UK) from 1935 to 1936. ==Life== Moore was born in Upper Norwood, in south-east London, on 4 November 1873, the middle child of seven of Dr Daniel Moore and Henrietta Sturge.
A humanist, he served as President of the British Ethical Union (now known as Humanists UK) from 1935 to 1936. ==Life== Moore was born in Upper Norwood, in south-east London, on 4 November 1873, the middle child of seven of Dr Daniel Moore and Henrietta Sturge.
He became a Fellow of Trinity in 1898, and went on to hold the University of Cambridge chair of Mental Philosophy and Logic, from 1925 to 1939. Moore is best known today for his defence of ethical non-naturalism, his emphasis on common sense in philosophical method, and the paradox that bears his name.
He famously put the point into dramatic relief with his 1939 essay "Proof of an External World", in which he gave a common sense argument against scepticism by raising his right hand and saying "Here is one hand" and then raising his left and saying "And here is another", then concluding that there are at least two external objects in the world, and therefore that he knows (by this argument) that an external world exists.
He was a member of the Cambridge Apostles, the intellectual secret society, from 1894 to 1901, and chairman of the Cambridge University Moral Sciences Club from 1912 to 1944.
George Edward Moore (4 November 1873 – 24 October 1958), usually cited as G.
Moore died at the Evelyn Nursing Home on 24 October 1958; he was cremated at Cambridge Crematorium on 28 October 1958 and his ashes interred at the Parish of the Ascension Burial Ground in Cambridge; his wife, Dorothy Ely (1892-1977) was buried there.
. ==See also== The Right and the Good ==References== ==Further reading== Daval, René, Moore et la philosophie analytique, 1997, Presses Universitaires de France (PUF), (French) Tom Regan.
Moore, On Defining "Good," in Analytic Philosophy: Classic Readings, Stamford, CT: Wadsworth, 2002, pp. 1–10.
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