The article deals with the birth of metaethics as analysis of the meaning of ethical terms in the Principia Ethica of George Edward Moore (1903). The discussion about the meaning and function of the term good is a central question for most ‘analytic’ philosophers up to the recent ‘ontological’ turn of J. L. Mackie: metaethics is today not only a linguistic analysis since deals with several different questions, although attention to language and meaning still plays — or should play — a central role in the analytic tradition.
CLIL theme: 3147 -- SCIENCES HUMAINES ET SOCIALES, LETTRES -- Lettres et Sciences du langage -- Linguistique, Sciences du langage
