Why did GE Moore disappear from history?
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> ... but through the second half of the 20th century interest went into serious decline
I wish Monk were more clear here. Basically all of non-natural moral theory (virtue ethics, objectivism, Kantian ethics, divine law in theological circles) went into a nosedive. Seriously, read Ansombe's MMP[2] and you'll see how disillusioned she was with the state of moral philosophy -- which was, at the time, mostly interested in linguistic and logical puzzles: is "good" descriptive, predicative, commendatory, attributive, or what-have-you.
[1] https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/moral-non-naturalism/
Correct, G.E. Moore certainly didn't disappear from history. I still have my copy of Principia Ethica that was drummed into me in Phil. classes at university decades ago.
I've kept a copy of this and other works such as Plato's Republic along with the works of Hobbes, Locke, Hume, Rousseau and others that are so well know to the cognoscenti that I needn't even name them—both because they are great and important works that have stood the test of time and that I still occasionally refer to them.
Given the many difficult moral and ethical dilemmas now facing the world, it seems to me it's more important than ever that we should reacquaint ourselves with Moore's works on ethics.
Incidentally, I've just looked up notes on my laptop about a matter wherein I've included a reference from Moore's Principia Ethica, that was on 2019-10-27. QED!
No, he isn't one of the Big Names of Philosophy, but then, not many philosophers are.
When I studied undergraduate philosophy early this century, his work and arguments arose numerous times. And the strength of his philosophical personality in his writings certainly left an impression on me.
I think that time does not exist, it is merely an abstraction that measures the relative rate of movement of matter. Everything we use to "measure" time is based on the physical movement of matter: pendulum, hourglass, rotation of Earth, watch balance wheel, even electronic crystal vibrations.
When we say that something took an hour, we mean that it elapsed while the Earth spun 15 degrees. Or traveled 0.041 degrees around the sun. The passage of time is simply the collective movement of all the matter in the Universe. We cannot travel back in time because entropy has scattered everything.
The past is how matter was arranged before. The future is how it will be after.
So, "meters per second" can be restated as "meters per 0.00001157407 earth rotations" or meters per 15", where 15" is fifteen arc-seconds.
Hours and minutes are just placeholders.
0.00001157407 = 1 / (24 hrs * 60 min. * 60 secs)
15" = 360° * 60' * 60" / (24 hrs * 60 min. * 60 secs)
Sounds like you want to say that time is an emergent property of matter.