دحض المثالية (The Refutation of Idealism)

مقدمة

The essay appeared in Mind in 1903, the year of Principia Ethica, when British philosophy was dominated by idealists such as F. H. Bradley. Moore does not set out to prove that material things exist; he attacks a premise he finds in idealist arguments, Berkeley’s principle that to be is to be perceived. In every sensation, he argues, the act of consciousness must be distinguished from its object – the sensation of blue from blue itself. Consciousness is “diaphanous”: when we try to attend to it, we see only the blue. So the object of an experience can exist without being experienced. With Russell’s work of the same years, the essay is regarded as a starting point of analytic philosophy.

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• رسالة في مبادئ المعرفة الإنسانية1710 · جورج بيركلي

مزيد من أعمال جورج إدوارد مور

• 1903مبادئ الأخلاق (Principia Ethica)
• 1925دفاع عن الحس المشترك (A Defence of Common Sense)