20th century · 1873–1958
Who did G. E. Moore influence?
Students and legacy
Defended common sense and the indefinability of good, opening analytic ethics.
G. E. Moore influenced Bertrand Russell and Ludwig Wittgenstein. That is 2 lines of the 448 documented lines of influence between the 279 thinkers on this map.
Read on Wikipedia Portrait: Ray Strachey, born Rachel Pearsall Conn Costelloe (4 June 1887 London – 16 July 1940), Public domain See the whole map
Who was G. E. Moore?
G. E. Moore was, with Bertrand Russell, Wittgenstein and earlier Frege, one of the founders of analytic philosophy. He and Russell turned British philosophy away from idealism, and Moore became known for defending common sense and for his work in ethics and epistemology.
He was professor of philosophy at Cambridge, edited the journal Mind and influenced the Bloomsbury Group without joining it. Ray Monk called him the most revered philosopher of his era.
Summarized from the lead of the Wikipedia article.
Who did G. E. Moore influence?
2 thinkers on this map draw directly on G. E. Moore.
- Bertrand Russell 1872–1970
- Ludwig Wittgenstein 1889–1951
Two steps away from G. E. Moore
The second generation
Contemporaries of G. E. Moore
Thinkers on this map born within 25 years of G. E. Moore, with no direct line between them.
- Max Scheler 1874–1928
- Nikolai Berdyaev 1874–1948
- Ernst Cassirer 1874–1945
- Sergei Bulgakov 1871–1944
- Kitarō Nishida 1870–1945
- Nikolay Lossky 1870–1965
- Muhammad Iqbal 1877–1938
- Semyon Frank 1877–1950
G. E. Moore by the numbers
- Direct influences
- 0
- Direct followers
- 2
- Thinkers upstream
- 0
- Thinkers downstream
- 19
- Wikipedia languages
- 47 — #53 of 84 among 20th-century philosophers
- Card rarity
- Rare
Schools and lineages
Questions about G. E. Moore
- Who influenced G. E. Moore?
- No earlier thinker on this map is recorded as a direct influence on G. E. Moore.
- Who did G. E. Moore influence?
- Bertrand Russell and Ludwig Wittgenstein.
- When did G. E. Moore live?
- 1873–1958. The map files G. E. Moore under the 20th century.
- How rare is the G. E. Moore card?
- Wikipedia carries an article on G. E. Moore in 47 languages, which makes it a Rare card. Legendary starts at 100 languages, Epic at 50 and Rare at 25.
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