HES: Re: QUERY--Keynes on the long term

[John Medaille]

David Andrews wrote:
>Whatever the influence of G.E. Moore on twentieth century philosophy or
>Keynes, it is worse than a mischaracterization of Moore to say, as does John
>Medaille, that
>
>"Moore's "Principia Ethica" (1903)  . . . promulgated the doctrine known as
>"emotivism," that is, the idea that any ethical statement could only be the
>expression of a personal preference."
>
>"Emotivism" does not make even a hint of an appearance in  _Principia
>Ethica_. Moore's argument was quite to the contrary. He believed that
>goodness was an objective property.


There is no meaningful difference between Moore's 
intuitionism and Ayer's emotivism. For both the good is indefinable.


John C. Medaille