Principia Ethica

With the Preface to the Second Edition and Other Papers

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by G.E. Moore,

Edited by Thomas Baldwin

Cambridge University Press

Due/Published February 1993, 351 pages, paper

ISBN 0521448484

Principia Ethica is recognized as the definitive starting point for twentieth-century ethical theory. The text is reprinted here with the previously unpublished preface Moore wrote for a planned, but never completed, second edition. Though unfinished, it sets out clearly Moore's second thoughts about his own work. The volume also includes two important pieces from his later ethical writings, Free Will and The Conception of Intrinsic Value, and a new introduction by Thomas Baldwin.

Contents:Editor's introduction; Preface to Second Edition; Preface to First Edition; Principia Ethica; Index to First Edition; The conception of intrinsic value; Free will; Appendix: Principia Ethica and The Elements of Ethics