G. E. Moore's Principia Ethica: 'What is Good?'


	G. E. Moore's Principia Ethica: 'What is Good?'

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1-30-2008 10:41 AM

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ophelia_in_red says:

Moore puts forward his famous answer to the question 'What is Good?'

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that good is good, and that is the end of the matter. Or if I am asked <Q>How is
good to be defined?</Q> my answer is that it cannot be defined, and that is all
I have to say about it. But disappointing as these answers may appear, they are
of the very last importance. To readers who are familiar with philosophic
terminology, I can express their importance by saying that they amount to this:
That propositions about the good are all of them synthetic and never analytic;
and that is plainly no trivial matter. And the same thing may be expressed more
popularly, by saying that, if I am right, then nobody can foist upon us such an
axiom as that <Q>Pleasure is the only good</Q> or that <Q>The good is the
desired</Q> on the pretence that this is <Q>the very meaning of the word</Q>.</blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/1456965B-FEF9-4606-A64E-97EA6D3A3C96/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content7.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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