Moore George Edward - Philosophical Papers

Muirhead Library of Philosophy

PHILOSOPHICAL PAPERS

MUIRHEAD

Muirhead Library of Philosophy

20TH CENTURY PHILOSOPHY
In 22 Volumes

First published 1959 by

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Philosophical Papers

ISBN 978-0-415-29551-2

20th Century Philosophy: 22 Volumes

ISBN 0-415-29526-2

Muirhead Library of Philosophy: 95 Volumes

ISBN 0-415-27897-X

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The Muirhead Library of Philosophy was designed as a contribution to the History of Modern Philosophy under the heads: first of different Schools of ThoughtSensationalist, Realist, Idealist, Intuitivist;secondly of different SubjectsPsychology, Ethics, Aesthetics, Political Philosophy, Theology. While much had been done in England in tracing the course of evolution in nature, history, economics, morals and religion, little had been done in tracing the development of thought on these subjects. Yet the evolution of opinion is part of the whole evolution.

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G. E. MOORE

(The following notice is reprinted, with corrections and additions, from The Manchester Guardian of October 25, 1958, by kind permission of the Editor.)

George Edward Moore was born in London in 1873 and died at Cambridge on October 24, 1958. He was the third son of D. Moore, M.D., and Henrietta Sturge, and was a brother of Sturge Moore, the poet.

Moore was at school at Dulwich College, and he entered Trinity College, Cambridge, in 1892. He took a First in Part I of the Classical Tripos, and then turned to the study of Moral Science, to which he devoted the rest of his life. In 1896 he was placed in the first class of Part II of the Moral Sciences Tripos, and in 1898 he was awarded a prize-fellowship at Trinity. His dissertation dealt with two main topics, viz. the notion of the empirical and the noumenal self in Kants ethical writings, and the notions of reason and idea, with special reference to Bradleys