The Blame Game

The Blame Game

Mary Midgley, in Philosophy (July 1987), Cambridge Univ. Press, 32 East 57th St., New York, N.Y. 10022.
English philosopher G. E. Moore (1873-1958) was acclaimed most British intellectuals when his major work, Principia Ethica, was published in 1903. But the Fabian socialist Beatrice Webb was an exception. The book, she wrote in a letter, was "a metaphysical justification for doing what you like and what other people disapprove of." Its effect on young men was "to disintegrate their...

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