Principia Ethica [Paperback]

A revised edition of Principia Ethica, with a previously unpublished preface and other papers.Recognized as the definitive starting point for twentieth-century ethical theory, the text is reprinted with the previously unpublished preface Moore wrote for a planned, but never completed, second edition. Free Will and The Conception of Intrinsic Value are also included from his later ethical writings.Recognized as the definitive starting point for twentieth-century ethical theory, the text is reprinted with the previously unpublished preface Moore wrote for a planned, but never completed, second edition. Free Will and The Conception of Intrinsic Value are also included from his later ethical writings.Principia Ethica is recognized as the definitive starting point for twentieth-century ethical theory. The text is reprinted here with the previously unpublished preface Moore wrote for a planned, but never completed, second edition. Though unfinished, it sets out clearly Moore's second thoughts about his own work. The volume also includes two important pieces from his later ethical writings, Free Will and The Conception of Intrinsic Value, and a new introduction by Thomas Baldwin.Editor's introduction; Preface to second edition; Preface to first edition; Principia Ethica; Index to first edition; The conception of intrinsic value; Free will; Appendix: Principia Ethica and The Elements of Ethics.