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A classic instance of this is Russell’s “theory of definite descriptions”. See “On Denoting”, Mind 14 (October 1905), 479–93. Widely reprinted, as in Bertrand Russell, Logic and Knowledge, R. C. ) (London: Unwin Hyman, 1956), 39–56. 16. See, Bertrand Russell, Human Knowledge: Its Scope and Limits (London: Allen & Unwin, 1948). 17. Those wishing for a synoptic view of Russell would do well to read Bertrand Russell, My Philosophical Development (London: Allen & Unwin, 1959). 18. This is a view found in the ideas of Franz Brentano (1838–1917), who was a major proximate influence on phenomenology.
Principia is not an especially original book, and many contemporary reviewers criticized Moore on this account (see Hurka 2003). Moore’s claim that ethics cannot be subsumed under some natural science had been a common theme among intuitionists since the eighteenth century, and it was not uncommon for these intuitionists to claim that goodness is simple and indefinable. His pluralism about the good was also not new, nor was his combination of this pluralism with consequentialism. The doctrine of organic unities (the view that the value of a complex thing need not be equal to the sum of the value of its parts) can be found in Bradley, and Moore’s argument for the view that goodness is a non-natural property (the open question argument) can be found in Sidgwick.
19 1 G. E. Moore Principia Ethica Philip Stratton-Lake G. E. Moore’s Principia Ethica was published in 1903. In the book Moore defends four theses. The first two are meta-ethical, about the nature of good, whereas the third and fourth express his first-order evaluative views about which acts are right and which things are good. The first thesis is that goodness is the fundamental ethical notion. The fundamental nature of good for ethics means that it cannot be defined with reference to other ethical notions.