Muirhead Library of Philosophy PHILOSOPHICAL PAPERS MUIRHEAD Muirhead Library of Philosophy 20TH CENTURY PHILOSOPHY In 22 Volumes I Contemporary American Philosophy Adams & (Vol I) Montague II Contemporary American Philosophy Adams & (Vol II) Montague III G E Moore Ambrose & Lazerowitz IV Ludwig Wittgenstein Ambrose & Lazerowitz V Philosophy in America Black VI Contemporary Philosophy in Australia Brown & Rollins VII A History of Philosophy (Vol I) Erdmann VIII A History of Philosophy (Vol II) Erdmann IX A History of Philosophy (Vol III) Erdmann X Ideas Husserl XI The Development of Bertrand Russell's Philosophy Jager XII Contemporary British Philosophy (Vol III) Lewis XIII Contemporary British Philosophy (Vol IV) Lewis XIV A Hundred Years of British Philosophy Metz XV Lectures on Philosophy Moore XVI Commonplace Book Moore XVII Philosophical Papers Moore XVIII Some Main Problems of Philosophy Moore XIX Bernard Bosanquet and His Friends Muirhead XX Contemporary British Philosophy (Vol I) Muirhead XXI Contemporary British Philosophy (Vol II) Muirhead XXII Bertrand Russell Memorial Volume Roberts PHILOSOPHICAL PAPERS GEORGE EDWARD MOORE Routledge Taylor & Francisg Group LONDON AND NEW YORK First published 1959 by George Allen & Unwin Ltd Published 2013 by Routledge 2 Park Square, Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon OX14 4RN 711 Third Avenue, New York, NY 10017, USA Routledge is an imprint of the Taylor & Francis Group,an informa business All rights reserved. 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British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data A CIP catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library Philosophical Papers ISBN 978-0-415-29551-2 20th Century Philosophy: 22 Volumes ISBN 0-415-29526-2 Muirhead Library of Philosophy: 95 Volumes ISBN 0-415-27897-X MUIRHEAD LIBRARY OF PHILOSOPHY An admirable statemento f the aims of the Library of Philosophyw as provided by the first editor, the late ProfessorJ . H. Muirhead, in his descriptiono f the original programmep rinted in Erdmann'sH istory of Philosophy under the date 1890. This was slightly modified in subse- quentv olumest o take the form of the following statement: 'The Muirhead Library of Philosophyw as designeda s a contribution to the History of Modern Philosophyu ndert he heads:f irst of different Schools of Thought-Sensationalist,R ealist, Idealist, Intuitivist; secondlyo f different Subjects-PsychologyE, thics, Aesthetics,P olitical Philosophy,T heology. While muchh adb eend onei n Englandi n tracing the courseo f evolution in nature,h istory, economics,m oralsa nd religion, little had been done in tracing the developmento f thought on these subjects.Y et "the evolution of opinion is part of the whole evolution". 'By the co-operationo f different writers in carrying out this plan it was hopedt hat a thoroughnessa nd completenesso f treatment,o therwise unattainable,m ight be secured.I t was believed also that from writers mainly British and American fuller considerationo f English Philosophy than it had hitherto receivedm ight be looked for. In the earlier serieso f books containing, among others, Bosanquet's History of Aesthetic, Pfleiderer's Rational Theology since Kant, Albee's History of English Utilitarianism, Bonar'sP hilosophy and Political Economy,B rett's History of Psychology, Ritchie's Natural Rights, these objects were to a large extente ffected. 'In the meantimeo riginal work of a high order was being produced both in Englanda nd America by suchw riters as Bradley, Stout, Bertrand Russell, Baldwin, Urban, Montague,a nd others, and a new interest in foreign works, German, French and Italian, which had either become classicalo r were attracting public attention, had developed.T he scope of the Library thus becamee xtendedi nto somethingm ore international, and it is enteringo n the fifth decadeo f its existencei n the hope that it may contribute to that mutual understandingb etweenc ountries which is so pressinga needo f the presentt ime.' The need which Professor Muirhead stressedi s no less pressing today, and few will deny that philosophyh as much to do with enabling us to meet it, although no one, least of all Muirhead himself, would regard that as the sole, or even the main, object of philosophy. As Pro- fessor Muirhead continues to lend the distinction of his name to the Library of Philosophyi t seemedn ot inappropriatet o allow him to recall us to these aims in his own words. The emphasiso n the history of thought also seemedt o me very timely; and the number of important works promised for the Library in the near future augur well for the continuedf ulfilment, in this and other ways, of the expectationso f the original editor. H. D. LEWIS This page intentionally left blank: PHILOSOPHICAL PAPERS BY GEORGE EDWARD MOORE O.M. LITT.D., HON. LL.D., F.B.A. EmeritusP rofessoro f Philosophy and Fellow of Trinity College in the University of Cambridge LONDON: GEORGE ALLEN & UNWIN LTD NEW YORK: THE MACMILLAN COMPANY FIRST PUBLISHED IN 1959 SECOND IMPRESSION 1963 This book is copyright under the Berne Con- vention. Apart from any fair dealing for the purpose of private study, research, criticism or review, as permitted under the Copyright Act, 1956, no portion may be reproduced by any process without written permission. Enquiry shouldb e made to the publis/le1'. © George Allen and Unwin Ltd., 1959 PRINTED IN GREA1 " BRITAI\'; BY PHOTOLITHO in II on I2 pt Imprint type BY UNWIN BROTHERS LIMITED WOKING AND LONDON G. E. MOORE (The following notice is reprinted, with corrections and additions, from The Manchester Guardian of October 25, 1958, by kind per- mission of the Editor.) George Edward Moore was born in London in 1873 and died at Cambridge on October 24-, 1958. He was the third son of D. Moore, M.D., and Henrietta Sturge, and was a brother of SturgeM oore, the poet. Moore was at school at Dulwich College, and he entered Trinity College, Cambridge, in 1892. He took a First in Part I of the Classical Tripos, and then turned to the study of Moral Science,t o which he devotedt he rest of his life. In 1896 he was placed in the first class of Part II of the Moral SciencesT ripos, and in 1898 he was awarded a prize-fellowship at Trinity. His dissertation dealt with two main topics, viz. the notion of the 'empirical' and the 'noumenal' self in Kant's ethical writings, and the notions of 'reason' and 'idea', with special referencet o Bradley's Logic. The substanceo f both parts of the dissertation was afterwardsp ublishedi n Mind in two articles, entitled 'Free- dom' and 'The Nature of Judgment'.H is first book, Principia Ethica, was publishedi n 1903. He was away from Cambridgeu ntil 1911, holding no teaching post. In 1911 he returned to take up the office of University Lecturer in Moral Science. He held this for the next fourteen years, lecturing on Psychologya nd on Metaphysics.I n 1921 he becamee ditor of Mind, on the retiremento f G. F. Stout. In 1925 he succeededJ amesW ard as Professoro f Philosophy in Cam- bridge, and in the samey ear he again becameF ellow of Trinity. In 1951 he was appointedt o the Order of Merit. Moore married Miss Dorothy Ely in 1916 and had two sons. Beside Principia Ethica Moore published three books, Ethics (1912) in the Home University Series,P hilosophicalS tudies( 1922), and Some Main Problems of Philosophy (1953). He contributed many extremely importanTaiticles,i n his earlier years to Mind and other philosophical periodicals, and later to the Proceedings and the annualS upplementaryV olumeso f the Aristotelian Society. Moore's philosophical interests were wholly analytic and critical. He had not the slightest belief in the possibility of any system of constructive metaphysics,a nd he was a devastating critic of the fallacies and confusionsi nherenti n such systems.B y his own writings, and the influence which he exercisedo n con- temporariesl ike Bertrand Russell, and (as Keynes has testified) on a whole series of able men of a younger generation,h e did