G. E. Moore

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English philosopher (1873-1958)

United Kingdom AcademicsLived 1873 to 1958 · aged 84

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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.

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Moore, c. 1903

The title page of Principia Ethica

The gravestone of G. E. Moore and his wife Dorothy Moore in the Ascension Parish Burial Ground, Cambridge

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1951Order of Merit

1918Fellow of the British Academy

Academics from United Kingdom 6

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Simon Schama55.1

Richard Lynn55.2

John Atkinson Hobson55.1

Nikolaus Pevsner55.3

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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-emphasising the idealism which was then prevalent among British philosophers and became known for advocating common-sense concepts and contributing to ethics, epistemology and metaphysics. He was said to have had an "exceptional personality and moral character". Ray Monk dubbed him "the most revered philosopher of his era".

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