这本书弥补了分析哲学史上缺乏对1894年至1902年间G·E·摩尔哲学观点进行详细研究的缺陷。通过摩尔和伯特兰·罗素的工作，这一时期见证了分析哲学的诞生。摩尔的早期观点通过未出版的档案材料进行了详细研究，包括幸存的信件、日记、参加讲座的笔记、剑桥社团的论文以及早期工作的草稿，以修正剑桥分析哲学的起源是与F·H·布拉德利的绝对理想主义的突然分裂的既定观点。对这一时期的传统描述强调了弗雷格逻辑中的反心理主义，但没有更广泛地探讨这一运动的影响。反心理主义是摩尔的老师们在对康德和伦理学的解释中，关于心灵及其客体的本质的工作的一个关键特征。摩尔的老师G.F.斯托特和詹姆斯·沃德对19世纪末的心理科学辩论和发展中的新心理学做出了重要贡献。亨利·西奇威克（Henry Sidgwick）对康德和布拉德利（Bradley）的批评以及他在伦理学方面的主要著作对摩尔产生了关键影响。摩尔的三位一体奖学金论文是摩尔新判断理论发展的重要历史证据，这一理论在分析哲学起源中的决定性作用怎么强调都不为过。摩尔在其论文中对康德的研究最终为他的《伦理学原理》（Princia Ethica，1903）奠定了基础，该理论源于摩尔最早的使徒论文中体现的思想，通过他的论文得到发展，并通过他的伦理讲座（1898-1999）的元素得到完善。因此，这部二十世纪早期伦理学的巨著被证明是摩尔早期哲学发展的顶峰。
The Metaphysical Basis of Ethics: G.E. Moore and the Origins of Analytic Philosophy (History of Analytic Philosophy)
This book remedies the absence in the history of analytic philosophy of a detailed examination of G. E. Moore’s philosophical views as they developed between 1894 and 1902. This period saw the inauguration of analytic philosophy through the work of Moore and Bertrand Russell. Moore’s early views are examined in detail through unpublished archival material, including surviving letters, diaries, notes of lectures attended, papers for Cambridge societies, and drafts of early work, in order to revise the established view that the origin of analytic philosophy at Cambridge was an abrupt split from F. H. Bradley’s Absolute Idealism. Traditional accounts of this period have highlighted the anti-psychologism of Frege’s logic but have not explored the impact of this movement more broadly. Anti-psychologism was a key feature of the work of Moore’s teachers on the nature of the mind and its objects, in their interpretation of Kant, and in ethics. Moore’s teachers G.F. Stout and James Ward were significant contributors to the late 19th century debates in mental science and the developing new science of psychology. Henry Sidgwick’s criticisms of Kant and Bradley and his leading work in ethics were key influences on Moore. Moore’s Trinity Fellowship Dissertations are essential historical evidence of the development of Moore’s new theory of judgment, a theory whose defining role in the origins of analytic philosophy cannot be overstated. Moore’s study of Kant in his dissertations ultimately formed the groundwork for his Principia Ethica (1903), whichevolved from ideas that manifested in Moore’s earliest Apostles’ papers, developed through his dissertations, and were refined through his Elements of Ethics lectures (1898-99). This monumental work of early twentieth century ethics is thus shown to be the culmination of Moore’s early philosophical development.
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