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G.E. Moore


Born
in Upper Norwood, London, The United Kingdom
November 04, 1873

Died
October 24, 1958

Genre

Influences


George Edward "G. E." Moore OM, FBA was philosopher, one of the founders of the analytic tradition along with Bertrand Russell, Ludwig Wittgenstein, and (before them) Gottlob Frege. With Russell, he led the turn away from idealism in British philosophy, and became well known for his advocacy of common sense concepts, his contributions to ethics, epistemology, and metaphysics, and "his exceptional personality and moral character." He was Professor of Philosophy at the University of Cambridge, highly influential among (though not a member of) the Bloomsbury Group, and the editor of the influential journal Mind. He was elected a fellow of the British Academy in 1918. He was a member of the Cambridge Apostles, the intellectual secret society, f ...more

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Principia Ethica

3.79 avg rating — 989 ratings — published 1903 — 102 editions
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Proof of an External World

2.91 avg rating — 87 ratings — published 1939
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Ethics

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3.68 avg rating — 53 ratings — published 1912 — 47 editions
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A Defence of Common Sense

3.11 avg rating — 28 ratings — published 1925 — 2 editions
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The Refutation of Idealism

3.81 avg rating — 21 ratings — published 2013 — 2 editions
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Philosophical Papers

3.95 avg rating — 19 ratings — published 1959 — 23 editions
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Defensa del sentido común y...

3.28 avg rating — 18 ratings — published 1983 — 5 editions
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Some Main Problems of Philo...

3.85 avg rating — 13 ratings — published 1953 — 22 editions
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Selected Writings

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Philosophical Studies

3.33 avg rating — 9 ratings — published 1922 — 79 editions
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“The hours I spend with you I look upon as sort of a perfumed garden, a dim twilight, and a fountain singing to it. You and you alone make me feel that I am alive. Other men it is said have seen angels, but I have seen thee and thou art enough.”
George Edward Moore
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“A great artist is always before his time or behind it.”
George Edward Moore

“...fiction is as useful as truth, for giving us matter, upon which to exercise the judgment of value.”
G.E. Moore, Principia Ethica