An important collection of ten articles by the Cambridge analytical philosopher G.E. Moore, published in the same year and in the same book series as Wittgenstein’s Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus. The collection includes “The Refutation of Idealism” (first published in Mind, 1903), which contains the philosopher’s most famous criticisms of idealism. The two ethical essays newly published are “The Conception of Intrinsic Value” and “The Nature of Moral Philosophy”; the rest appeared previously in journals such as Mind, Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society, and The New Quarterly.
The books published in the series were generally bound up as demand required, hence later issues of the first editions are often encountered with substantially later advertisement’s bound at the rear. The present example includes advertisements dated 1941 bound at the rear, indicating a later issue.
