The Metaphysical Basis of Ethics G.E. Moore and the Origins of Analytic Philosophy

Series Editor’s Foreword
Acknowledgements
Contents
Introduction: G. E. Moore and the Origins of Early Analytic Philosophy
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1: Mental Science and Moral Science in Nineteenth Century Cambridge
	1	 Introduction
	2	 The Moral Sciences at Cambridge
		2.1	 Nineteenth Century Reform of the University: Religious Tests and the Tripos Examinations
	3	 Moore and the Mental Sciences at Cambridge
	4	 Nineteenth Century Psychology, Logic, and Metaphysics: Psychologism and Anti-Psychologism
		4.1	 Psychologism and Anti-Psychologism: The Psychologismusstreit
	5	 Mental Science and Psychology in Nineteenth Century Germany, Austria, and Great Britain
		5.1	 Lotze
		5.2	 Brentano
		5.3	 Bradley
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2: Moore’s Early Philosophical Development: 1894–1896
	1	 Introduction: Moore at Cambridge
	2	 Reading Kant in Nineteenth Century Cambridge
	3	 Stout on Kant, Psychology, and the Nature of Judgment
		3.1	 Stout’s History of Philosophy Lectures, 1894
	4	 Ward’s Mental Science
	5	 Interlude: Moore, Russell, and the Moral Sciences Tripos Part II Examination
	6	 Moore’s Essays for Ward on Lotze
	7	 Moore’s Notes on Stout’s Lectures on Lotze
	8	 McTaggart
	9	 “In What Sense, If Any, Do Past and Future Time Exist?”
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3: Moral Science and Ethical Systems: Sidgwick’s Influence on Moore
	1	 Introduction
	2	 Nineteenth Century British Ethics: Sidgwick in Context
	3	 Sidgwick and Bradley
	4	 Sidgwick on Kant
	5	 Methods of Ethics
		5.1	 The Method of Methods of Ethics
		5.2	 Common Sense Morality
		5.3	 Free Will
	6	 Moore’s Notebooks and Essays for Sidgwick
		6.1	 Sidgwick’s Ethical Systems Lectures
		6.2	 Essays on Methods of Ethics
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4: The Metaphysical Basis of Ethics
	1	 Introduction
	2	 Moore’s Earliest Philosophical Forays
		2.1	 Papers for Cambridge Societies (Apostles Papers and others)
	3	 The Revolution: Moore’s Trinity Prize Fellowship Dissertations (1897–1898)
	4	 The 1897 Version of The Metaphysical Basis of Ethics
	5	 The 1898 Version of The Metaphysical Basis of Ethics
	6	 Fellowship Years
		6.1	 “The Elements of Ethics” and “Kant's Moral Philosophy”: Moore’s Lectures at the London School of Ethics and Social Philosophy, 1898–1899
		6.2	 Replies to Thomas Sturge Moore
		6.3	 Moore’s “Elements of Ethics” and Principia Ethica
	7	 Conclusion
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Index