A Study On G.E.Moore's Intuitionism Of Meta-ethics

G.E.Moore is the one in the history of western ethics who inherit the past and usher in the future. Bringing the ethics into a new horizon, his intuitionism of meta-ethics takes the ethics into the period of meta-ethics. Intuitionism of meta-ethics meets the requirement practically of the moral changing in the transition period of the society, while it theoretically is the inevitable step of the intuitionism. The study on the G.E.Moore's intuitionism of meta-ethics has great sense theoretically and practically.The article illuminate the main points of G.E.Moore's intuitionism of meta-ethics, making use of the history research method, history and realization combining method, breaking through the point from meta-ethics and intuitionism and focusing on the critics from marx's perspectives. G.E.Moore's intuitionism of meta-ethics includes three aspects, first, the nature of the ethics is merit. Because merit can not be analyzed, merit can not be defined. This is the start point of Moore. Second, the traditional way of defining the merit is not correct. Moore called it"falsehood of naturalism". No matter naturalism,metaphysics or hedonism, they all confuses property of"good"with"good"things, good of ends with good of instrument. Third, the purpose of the ethics is the knowledge, not practice. But it can not be without the practice. Moore's ethical on behavior shows up great benthamism inclination, reflecting his connecting with the normative-ethics.Without the doubt, G.E.Moore still has some weak points due to the limit of the objective circumstance. But the new horizon of deviated from the ethics study is marked. A Study on G.E.Moore's Intuitionism of Meta-ethics contributes to the whole development of the ethics study, contributes to the connection of the eastern and western culture communication. By other's fault, wise men correct their own. It is contributive to the marx's ethics by studying the G.E.Moore's intuitionism of meta-ethics.