George Edward Moore / G. E. Moore

GEORGE EDWARD MOORE WAS AN ENGLISH PHILOSOPHER. HE WAS, WITH BERTRAND RUSSELL, LUDWIG WITTGENSTEIN, AND (BEFORE THEM) GOTTLOB FREGE, ONE OF THE FOUNDERS OF ANALYTIC PHILOSOPHY. ALONG 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". #historyandphilosophy #georgeedwardmoore #innabesedina #ethics #moralknowledge #naturalisticfallacy #openquestionargument #goodasindefinable #mooresparadox #goodasanonnaturalproperty #organicwholes #analyticphilosophy #westernphilosophy #moralphilosophy #philosophyoflanguage