The Beginning Of Meta-Ethics

Meta-Ethics is a very important part of modern ethics. Furthermore, Intuitionist Ethics is the origin of Mata-Ethics. As a founder, George Moore shouldn't be ignored by us. The writer tries to explore the basic idea about Intuitionist Ethics depending on the ideological background in that time. And the writer also wants to find the essence and the defects of the theory in order to enrich and develop the theory.First, the writer drew the outline of some great people who deeply impacted the theory of Moore in order that we can put his theory under the background of the whole ideological history to fix the position of Moore in the theory of Meta-Ethics. The article is basically according to Principia Ethica. The following content is around the theory of "Goodness Is Indefinable". The writer tries to reappear the complete theory and reveal the intrinsic logic of Moore. Meanwhile, the writer also wants to give the basic clew. This is the footstone for further research. Then the writer starts with the concept of "intuition" and compares Chinese and western intuition, common sense and intuition, Sidgwick and other's intuition to make the theory easier to catch in deep sense. Still, the writer considers of the advantage and the disadvantage about Moore's idea. This is the core of the whole article. Further more, in the view of Mata-Ethics, the writer affirms the significance of Intuitionist Ethics by describing the dependent relationship between Normative Ethics and Mata-Ethics. Of course, the writer analyses the shortage of Mata-Ethics objectively. In the end, the writer affirms the amalgamation between Normative Ethics and Mata-Ethics. And the combination of theory and practice is insisted as the leitmotiv of this article by the writer.