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G. E. Moore's Ethical Theory: Resistance and Reconciliation // Reviews // Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews // University of Notre Dame

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In G. E. Moore’s Ethical Theory, Brian Hutchinson paints a picture of Moore as both a revolutionary and as a conservative. His revolutionary impulse is his desire to break with the philosophical tradition that has committed the naturalistic fallacy. His conservative impulse is his desire to retain the simple truths of common sense. Hutchinson tries to push the revolutionary side in such a way as to see Moore as a close precursor of the later Wittgenstein, and suggests a way of steering between his anti-philosophical, revolutionary side and his conservatism...

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