(August 16, 2019 at 9:56 am)Grandizer Wrote: Moore is saying that it's meaningful to ask the question "Is harm really bad?" unlike with say "is a bachelor an unmarried man?"
Yes, it’s a meaningful question because there is a distinction in meaning between good and harm, or else it would be a meaningless tautology like saying a bachelor whose also an unmarried man.
Good is distinct from harm, same way it’s distinct from a pizza.
Quote:But doesn't matter anyway. The argument hasn't really been successful over time. Again, Google the counterarguments.
There’s plenty of argument like that of Hume is/ought that many individuals think they have resolved like Sam Harris, without really understanding them.
Quote:And Moore was nevertheless not a supernaturalist. There's no God in his position.
He’s not, he’s just a non-naturalist, there no God in his view here.
But that’s because it’s incomplete, not fully realized, his picture though true, is only partly formed. Wittgenstein was a student ( he was also a student of Bertrand Russel), and eventual teacher of Moore as well, his views are far more realized than Moore’s.