The Right and the Good
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The Right and the Good is a 1930 book by the Scottish philosopher William David Ross. In it, Ross develops a deontological pluralism based on prima facie duties. Ross defends a realist position about
The Right and the Good
G. E. Moore
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George Edward Moore was an English philosopher who, alongside Bertrand Russell, Ludwig Wittgenstein and earlier Gottlob Frege, was an initiator of analytic philosophy. He and Russell began de-emphasis
The Right and the Good
…rightness but it is central for moral goodness or virtue. Ross uses these considerations to point out the flaws in other ethical theories, for example, in G. E. Moore's ideal utilitarianism or in Immanuel Kant's deontology. Ross defends a realist position about morality: the moral order expressed in prima facie duties…
Moore in 1914
Moore, c. 1903
The gravestone of G. E. Moore and his wife Dorothy Moore in the Ascension Parish Burial Ground, Cambridge