Utilitas

Table of Contents - 2003 - Volume , Issue 03  

G. E. Moore Centennial Essay

Principia Then and Now

Robert Shavera1

a1 University of Manitoba, bshaver@cc.umanitoba.ca

Abstract

Moore is taken to have followed Sidgwick in his arguments against naturalism and in his consequentialism. I argue that there are differences on both issues. Sidgwick's arguments against naturalism do not rely on a controversial view of analysis, and one of his arguments for consequentialism gives him greater resources against critics of consequentialism such as T. M. Scanlon.