Intuitionism: Key Words

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Key words for the intuitionism topic
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Intuitionism The ideas that moral principles are known to people intuitively
GE Moore (1873- 1958) A prominent Cambridge philosopher who, in 1903, published a book founding modern intuitionism.
Principia Ethica Moore’s book on intuitionism.
The ‘naturalistic fallacy’ An attempt to define good in terms derived from the natural, empirical world.
The ‘open question argument’ The idea that ‘Is it good?’, asked of anything, is always an open question.
Roger Scruton A modern critic of Intuitionism.
WD Ross (1877-1971) A philosopher who further developed Intuitionism in the 1930s.
HA Prichard (1871-1947). Another philosopher who further developed Intuitionism in the 1930s.
Pluralism In Intuitionism, the idea that our values are not definable in terms of anything else, so they must all be ‘right’ in ways that do not relate one to the other.
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