Présentation de l'éditeur :
Ethics, as in all other philosophical studies, the difficulties and disagreements, of which its history is full, are mainly due to a very simple cause: namely to the attempt to answer questions, without first discovering precisely what question it is which you desire to answer. I do not know how far this source of error would be done away, if philosophers would try to discover what question they were asking, before they set about to answer it; for the work of analysis and distinction is often very difficult: we may often fail to make the necessary discovery, even though we make a (U hniir eiU empt to do so. But I am inclined to think that in many cases a resolute attempt would be sufficient to ensure success; so that, if only this attempt were made, many of the most glaring difficulties and disagreements in philosophy would disappear. At all events, philosophers seem, in general, not to make the attempt; and, whether in consequence of this omission or not, they are constantly endeavouring to prove that Yes or No will answer questions, to which neither answer is correct, owing to the fact that what they have before their minds is not one question, but several, to some of which the true answer isN o, to others Yes.
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Biographie de l'auteur :
About the Author English philosopher G. E. Moore (1873 –1958) was a Fellow of the British Academy, and a Lecturer in Moral Science in the University of Cambridge. Alongside Bertrand Russell and Ludwig Wittgenstein, George Edward Moore was a founder of the analytic tradition in philosophy.
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