Editing G. E. Moore (section)

==Life==
[[File:G. E. Moore c. 1903.jpg|left|thumb|Moore, {{Circa}} 1903]]
George Edward Moore was born in [[Upper Norwood]], in south-east London, on 4 November 1873, the middle child of seven of Daniel Moore, a medical doctor, and Henrietta Sturge.<ref name=levy/><ref>{{cite book|last1=Gwynn|first1=Frederick L.|title=Sturge Moore and the Life of Art |date=1951 |publisher=University of Kansas Press|location=Lawrence, Kansas |page=9 |url=https://kuscholarworks.ku.edu/bitstream/handle/1808/6344/upk.sturge_moore.pdf |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180415190755/https://kuscholarworks.ku.edu/bitstream/handle/1808/6344/upk.sturge_moore.pdf |archive-date=2018-04-15 |url-status=live|accessdate=15 February 2022}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=Father Daniel |url=https://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/r/72d46a6f-0b49-4333-b502-932afbd727f0 |website=The National Archives |publisher=Cambridge University Library: Department of Manuscripts and University Archives |access-date=16 February 2022}}</ref> His grandfather was the author [[George Moore (physician)|George Moore]]. His eldest brother was [[Thomas Sturge Moore]], a poet, writer and engraver.<ref name="levy">{{Cite book |last1=Levy |first1=Paul |author-link1=Paul Levy (journalist) |url=https://archive.org/details/moore00paul |title=Moore: G. E. Moore and the Cambridge Apostles |date=1979 |publisher=Weidenfeld and Nicolson |isbn=0297775766 |location=London |pages=28–30 |url-access=registration}}</ref><ref>[http://www.dulwich.org.uk/OA_Document_1.aspx?id=1:29464&id=1:29454&id=1:29431/ Eminent Old Alleynians : Academe] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071025200056/http://www.dulwich.org.uk/OA_Document_1.aspx?id=1%3A29464&id=1%3A29454&id=1%3A29431%2F |date=25 October 2007}} at dulwich.org.uk, accessed 24 February 2009</ref><ref>{{Cite web |last1=Baldwin |first1=Tom |author-link1=Thomas Baldwin (philosopher) |title=George Edward Moore |url=http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/moore/#1 |website=Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy |publisher=Center for the Study of Language and Information (CSLI), Stanford University |access-date=29 October 2015 |date=26 March 2004}}</ref>

He was educated at [[Dulwich College]]<ref>Sheila Hodges, 1981, ''[[iarchive:godsgiftlivinghi0000hodg|God's Gift: A Living History of Dulwich College]]'', pp. 87–88, Heinemann: London.</ref> and, in 1892, began attending [[Trinity College, Cambridge]], to learn [[classics]] and [[moral sciences]]. His [[tripos]] results were a [[double first]].<ref>{{acad |id=MR892GE |name=Moore, George Edward}}</ref> He became a Fellow of Trinity in 1898 and was later [[University of Cambridge]] [[Faculty of Philosophy, University of Cambridge|Professor of Mental Philosophy and Logic]] from 1925 to 1939.

Moore is known best now for defending [[ethical non-naturalism]], his emphasis on [[common sense]] for philosophical method, and the [[Moore's paradox|paradox that bears his name]]. He was admired by and influenced by other philosophers and some of the [[Bloomsbury Group]]. But unlike his colleague and admirer Bertrand Russell, who for some years thought Moore fulfilled his "ideal of genius",<ref>''The Autobiography of Bertrand Russell'' (Volume I, 1872-1914), George Allen and Unwin Ltd., 1971, p. 64. He added: "He had a kind of exquisite purity. I have never but once succeeded in making him tell a lie, and that was a subterfuge. 'Moore', I said, 'do you always speak the truth?' 'No' he replied. I believe this to be the only lie he ever told."</ref> he is mostly unknown presently except among academic philosophers. Moore's essays are known for their clarity and circumspection of writing style and methodical and patient treatment of philosophical problems. He was critical of modern philosophy for lack of [[Philosophical progress|progress]], which he saw as a stark contrast to the dramatic advances in the [[natural science]]s since the [[Renaissance]]. Among Moore's most famous works are his ''[[Principia Ethica]]'',<ref>{{Cite book |last1=Moore |first1=G. E. |title=Principia Ethica |date=1903 |publisher=University Press |location=Cambridge |isbn=0879754982 |url=http://fair-use.org/g-e-moore/principia-ethica |access-date=29 October 2015}}</ref> and his essays, "The Refutation of Idealism", "[[A Defence of Common Sense]]", and "A Proof of the External World".

Moore was an important and admired member of the secretive [[Cambridge Apostles]], a discussion group drawn from the British intellectual elite.  At the time another member, 22-year-old Bertrand Russell, wrote "I almost worship him as if he were a god. I have never felt such an extravagant admiration for anybody",<ref name=monk/> and would later write that "for some years he fulfilled my ideal of genius. He was in those days beautiful and slim, with a look almost of inspiration as deeply passionate as [[Spinoza]]'s".<ref>{{Cite news |last1=Baldwin |first1=Thomas |title=G. E. Moore: A great philosopher? |url=https://www.the-tls.co.uk/articles/g-e-moore-a-great-philosopher/ |access-date=13 October 2021 |work=The Times Literary Supplement |date=25 September 2020 |location=London}}</ref>

From 1918 to 1919, Moore was chairman of the [[Aristotelian Society]], a group committed to the systematic study of philosophy, its historical development and its methods and problems.<ref>[http://www.aristoteliansociety.org.uk/about/the-council/ The Aristotelian Society – The Council]</ref> He was appointed to the [[Order of Merit]] in 1951.<ref>{{cite news |title=Three New Barons in Honours List |url=https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/48200100 |access-date=3 April 2023 |work=The West Australian |date=7 June 1951 |location=Perth, WA |page=3}}</ref>

Moore died in England in the [[Nuffield Health Cambridge Hospital|Evelyn Nursing Home]] on 24 October 1958.<ref name="dnb2004">{{Cite ODNB|last1=Baldwin|first1=Thomas|author-link1=Thomas Baldwin (philosopher)|chapter=Moore, George Edward (1873–1958)|date=23 September 2004|title=Oxford Dictionary of National Biography|title-link=Oxford Dictionary of National Biography|editor-last1=Matthew|editor-first1=H. C. G.|editor-link1=Colin Matthew|editor-last2=Harrison|editor-first2=Brian|editor-link2=Brian Harrison (historian)|isbn=0-19-861411-X|oclc=54778415|volume=38|pages=[[iarchive:isbn_0198613881/page/936/mode/1up|936–939]]|doi=10.1093/ref:odnb/35090}} </ref> He was cremated at Cambridge Crematorium on 28 October 1958 and his ashes interred at the [[Ascension Parish Burial Ground, Cambridge|Parish of the Ascension Burial Ground]] in the city. His wife, Dorothy Ely (1892–1977), was buried there. Together, they had two sons, the poet [[Nicholas Moore]] and the composer Timothy Moore.<ref>{{cite web|last1=Yau|first1=John|author-link1=John Yau|title=Nicholas Moore, Touched by Poetic Genius|url=http://hyperallergic.com/173897/nicholas-moore-touched-by-poetic-genius/|website=[[Hyperallergic]]|access-date=29 October 2015|date=11 January 2015}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |first = Nicholas |last = Marshall |title = Timothy Moore |date = 10 March 2003 |url = https://www.theguardian.com/news/2003/mar/10/guardianobituaries.artsobituaries1 |work = The Guardian |access-date = 14 March 2014}}</ref>