Philosopher
G. E. Moore
Overview
George Edward Moore (4 November 1873 – 24 October 1958) was an English philosopher who, alongside Bertrand Russell, Ludwig Wittgenstein and earlier Gottlob Frege, was an initiator of analytic philosophy. He and Russell began de-emphasising the idealism which was then prevalent among British philosophers and became known for advocating common-sense concepts and contributing to ethics, epistemology and metaphysics. He was said to have had an "exceptional personality and moral character". Ray Monk dubbed him "the most revered philosopher of his era".
As Professor of Philosophy at the University of Cambridge, he influenced but abstained from the Bloomsbury Group, an informal set of intellectuals. He edited the journal Mind. He was a member of the Cambridge Apostles from 1894 to 1901, a fellow of the British Academy from 1918, and was chairman of the Cambridge University Moral Sciences Club in 1912–1944. A humanist, he presided over the British Ethical Union (now Humanists UK) in 1935–1936.
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Philosophers who discussed G. E. Moore
- Tom Regan
- Georg Henrik von Wright
- Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
- Henri Bergson
- James Mark Baldwin
- Ludwig Wittgenstein
- George Santayana
- W. D. Ross
- David Malet Armstrong
- J. L. Austin
- Frank P. Ramsey
- Herbert Spencer
- Thomas Reid
- Crispin Wright
- Peter Geach
- J. M. E. McTaggart
- Ian Hacking
- Baruch Spinoza
- Roderick Chisholm
- Bertrand Russell
- Alfred North Whitehead
- F. H. Bradley
- Rush Rhees
- Brand Blanshard
Ideas G. E. Moore discusses
- Tom Regan
- Self-evidence
- Philosophical realism
- Argument
- Hedonism
- Idealism
- Analytic philosophy
- Ludwig Wittgenstein
- Duty
- Metaphilosophy
- Metaphysics
- Metaethics
- Henry Sidgwick
- Common sense
- Naturalistic fallacy
- Physicalism
- Frank P. Ramsey
- Renaissance
- University of Cambridge
- British Academy
- Skepticism
- Secular humanism
- Deontology
- Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus
Place in the tradition
Part of American philosophy.