Comments on: Principia Ethica

By: duncan

duncan — Thu, 25 Mar 2004 19:59:06 +0000

Oops! You only get a limited free preview there. That could be enough to find one or two passages, but probably no more than that. And I don’t know where you would stand with regard to copyright.

By: duncan

duncan — Thu, 25 Mar 2004 19:52:25 +0000

How about this? http://www.questia.com/PM.qst?a=o&d=25050502 I haven’t checked all the conditions of use, but it seems to be available for all normal scholarly uses.

By: Phill

Phill — Thu, 25 Mar 2004 01:00:42 +0000

It should be out of copyright, but don’t count on it if the MPAA gets to buy another extension of the copyright period from congress. The CUP might hold a valid copyright on the typesetting, but even that expires after some time.

By: David Mackinder

David Mackinder — Thu, 25 Mar 2004 00:49:11 +0000

there is an ebook edition (at a price) ; see http://www.ebook-download.net/ebooks/principia-ethica-world-digital-library-edition.php

By: Matthew

Matthew — Wed, 24 Mar 2004 22:41:34 +0000

The latest version on Amazon.com (using Amazon’s look inside thebook feature) says copyright remains with Cambridge University Press. One of the chapters is here http://www.ditext.com/online.html#m otherwise I couldn’t find it.

By: bob mcmanus

bob mcmanus — Wed, 24 Mar 2004 19:33:11 +0000

Online Books is a source that includes Gutenberg and many other materials. For future reference, perhaps, because though I saw half a dozen books by G. Moore (different guy?) no Principia

By: mark steen

mark steen — Wed, 24 Mar 2004 17:35:29 +0000

I looked on Past Masters, to no avail. Also, I did a quick google search and came upon a phil. teacher’s recent class website where he said there is almost no Moore on the web. You might be SOL here.

By: JR

JR — Wed, 24 Mar 2004 17:01:06 +0000

You may try to find it at channel #bookz in irc.undernet.org

By: Barry

Barry — Wed, 24 Mar 2004 16:54:44 +0000

Project Gutenburg doesn’t seem to have it.