Part 2, Intuitionism.

Right, for this section, we're focusing on G.E. Moore's, Principal E. Thic, from 1903. Who was G.E. Moore?

G. Moore was a British professor in philosophy, and we've mentioned him on the previous episode

on Wittgenstein. He lived between 1873 and 1958, and we're looking at his major work,

Principal Ethica, as I just mentioned, was published in 1903.

Along with Bertrand Russell, Ludwig Wittgenstein and Gottlob Frege. Moore was one of the founders

of the analytic tradition in philosophy. It was actually Moore who suggested Wittgenstein's

the name of his book, the Tractatus Logico Philosophagus, and he was on the panel

with Bertrand Russell who allowed Wittgenstein to submit his tractators as his PhD thesis at Cambridge.

Along with Russell Moore becomes well known for his common sense approach to epistemology metaphysics

and what we're discussing today, his ethics.

So what are his ethics? What's his metaethical view? Well, spoiler, it's intuitionism,

but what does this word mean? What does an intuition mean? I think an intuition is something that

comes to somebody or a group of people naturally, something that you feel as a response to

some kind of stimulus. It's almost always the first sort of port of call that your mind makes

that either could be right or wrong. And on reflection, you can, you can sort of change your mind about your intuition.

But it's, I'd say simply, that it's what you first think of when you're confronted with, for example, an issue.

And it's important to recognise and define that intuition is very different to reason in the senses.

Right. So an intuition is your first immediate thought when you're thinking about this moral statement.

It's not through empirical evidence and it's not through reason.

Okay.

So I see someone kicking me in the leg and it's just intuition that tells me that it's bad.

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