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Principia Ethica

by G. E. Moore

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Moore’s argument is that “good” cannot be defined in terms of anything else — pleasure, evolution, the will of God — and that every attempt to do so commits what he named the naturalistic fallacy. The book reset twentieth-century ethics and, through Bloomsbury, shaped a whole literary generation.

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