The meaning of 'good'

Philosophical Review 46 (4):416-423 (1937)
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Argues against G.E. Moore's thesis that "good" is unanalysable. Consulting the dictionary ("more illuminating than many volumes of rational axiology"), Williams concludes that the fundamental meaning of "good" is being in accord with my purposes. That does not rule out a search for some highest good that will unify my purposes.

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Principia ethica.George Edward Moore - 1903 - Mineola, N.Y.: Dover Publications. Edited by Thomas Baldwin.
Experience and nature.John Dewey & Paul Carus Foundation - 1925 - London,: Open Court Publishing Company.
General theory of value.Ralph Barton Perry - 1926 - Cambridge,: Harvard University Press.
Fragen der Ethik.Moritz Schlick - 1930 - Wien,: J. Springer. Edited by Rainer Hegselmann.
Is "Goodness" a Name of a Simple Non-Natural Quality?C. D. Broad - 1934 - Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society 34:249 - 268.

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