Desiring to Desire: Russell, Lewis and G. E Moore

Abstract

Abstract I Moore’s Warning ‘I am the person Moore warned you against,’ joked David Lewis before reading his now famous paper, ‘Dispositional Theories of Value’, to the Aristotelian Society in 1989.³ The alleged warning occurs in §13 of Principia Ethica,⁴ the crucial passage in which Moore expounds the Open Question Argument. ‘To take, for instance one of the more plausible, because one of the more complicated of such [naturalistic] definitions,it may easily be thought, at first sight, that to be good may mean to be that which we desire to desire’ (PE, §13).

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