- Lived:
- 1873–1958 · London and Cambridge, England
- Tradition:
- Early analytic philosophy; ethical non-naturalism and common-sense realism
- The Big Idea:
- Some things — goodness above all — cannot be defined, only recognized; and no philosophical argument, however clever, is more certain than the plain fact that you have two hands.
- In their words:
- "Here is one hand… and here is another."
- If you remember one thing:
- When a philosophical theory tells you something obviously false — that time is unreal, that goodness is just pleasure, that the external world might not exist — Moore taught the world to ask which is more likely: that the obvious thing is false, or that the clever argument has gone wrong somewhere.