O tratamento das proposições em G. E. Moore: consequências e aporias no âmbito moral

Abstract

The text discusses the role of propositions in the work of George Edward Moore and their consequences for moral discourse and action, mostly based on texts The Nature of Judgment and Principia Ethica. It is an analysis, a historical- philosophical exposition and a rescue from emerging discussion in the analytic tradition on the notions of concept and proposition in the first author's work of 1899, thus analyzing the use of propositions and concepts in the moral study in the Principia. It is important to observe that Moore s theory about the propositions and concepts have consequences and problems to the characterization of moral speech and ethical notions as 'good', 'intrinsic value' and 'organic whole'. For context, the work discusses the author's own discussion with authors such as Kant, Bradley and traditions in the history of philosophy as hedonism. This study highlights the extent to which moral concepts can be treated properly in analytical method and the scientific view of ethics Moore. The text also clarifies the difficulties about the notion of good, their hierarchy of values, the use of concepts such as probability, intuition and aesthetics in the constitution of his moral theory based on studies of propositions.