Editing John Maynard Keynes (section)

===Philosophical and spiritual views===
Keynes, like other members of the [[Bloomsbury Group]], was greatly influenced by the philosophy of [[G. E. Moore]], which in 1938 he described as "still my religion under the surface".{{sfn|Skidelsky|1992|p=408}} According to Moore, states of mind were the only valuable things in themselves, the most important being "the pleasures of human intercourse and the enjoyment of beautiful objects".<ref>{{Cite book|last=Moore|first=George Edward|url=http://worldcat.org/oclc/1147825165|title=Principia Ethica|date=2019|publisher=Forgotten Books|isbn=978-0-243-65975-3|oclc=1147825165|access-date=12 October 2021|archive-date=14 February 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220214204233/https://www.worldcat.org/title/principia-ethica/oclc/1147825165|url-status=live}}</ref>{{sfn|Skidelsky|1983|p=138}} [[Virginia Woolf]]'s biographer tells an anecdote of how Virginia Woolf, Keynes and [[T. S. Eliot]] discussed religion at a dinner party, in the context of their struggle against [[Victorian era]] morality.<ref name="bell177">
{{cite book
|first=Quentin |last=Bell
|title=Virginia Woolf, A Biography
|volume= 2
|publisher=The Hogarth Press. 1972
|edition= revised 1996
|page= 177
|authorlink= Quentin Bell
}}
</ref>

Keynes may have been [[Confirmation|confirmed]],{{sfn|Skidelsky|1983|p=[https://archive.org/details/johnmaynardkeyne0000skid_n9n5/page/86/mode/2up 86]}} but according to Cambridge University he was clearly an agnostic, which he remained until his death.<ref>
{{cite book
|last=Lubenow
|first=William C
|authorlink = W. C. Lubenow
|title=The Cambridge Apostles, 1820–1914
|year=1998
|isbn=0-521-57213-4
|publisher=Cambridge University Press
}}
</ref> According to one biographer, "he was never able to take religion seriously, regarding it as a strange aberration of the human mind"{{sfn|Skidelsky|1983|p=[https://archive.org/details/johnmaynardkeyne0000skid_n9n5/page/86/mode/2up 86]}} but also added that he came to "value it for social and moral reasons" later in life.<ref>{{Cite book|last=Skidelsky|first=Robert|title=John Maynard Keynes |volume= 3: ''Fighting for Freedom 1937–46''|publisher=Macmillan|year=2000|isbn=0-14-200167-8|page=475}}</ref> Another biographer writes that he "broke the family faith and became a 'ferocious agnostic{{'"}} during his time at Eton.<ref>{{cite book|title=John Maynard Keynes: A Personal Biography of the Man who Revolutionized Capitalism and the Way We Live|page=33|last=Hession|first=Charles Henry|year=1984|publisher=Macmillan|isbn=978-0-02-551310-5}}</ref> One Cambridge acquaintance remembered him as "an [[atheism|atheist]] with a devotion to King's chapel".{{r|robinson}} At Cambridge, he was strongly associated with the Cambridge Heretics Society, an avowed atheist group which promoted [[secularism]] and [[secular humanism|humanism]].<ref>{{cite web|url=https://heritage.humanists.uk/the-cambridge-heretics/|title=The Cambridge Heretics|work=Humanist Heritage|publisher=[[Humanists UK]]|access-date=30 April 2021|archive-date=2 August 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210802111101/https://heritage.humanists.uk/the-cambridge-heretics/|url-status=live}}</ref>