Does anyone know if there’s a free electronic copy of Moore’s _Principia Ethica_ online anywhere? It should be out of copyright, so there’d be no legal reason it wouldn’t be posted, but maybe no one thought it important enough to convert to electronic form. I wanted to cut and paste some long sections because I got interested in the role of necessity and a priority in Moore’s meta-ethical views, and it would be more convenient to (a) not have to transcribe things and (b) be able to refer readers immediately to the passages I’m talking about.
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Barry 03.24.04 at 4:54 pm
Project Gutenburg doesn’t seem to have it.
JR 03.24.04 at 5:01 pm
You may try to find it at channel #bookz in irc.undernet.org
mark steen 03.24.04 at 5:35 pm
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.
bob mcmanus 03.24.04 at 7:33 pm
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
Matthew 03.24.04 at 10:41 pm
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.
David Mackinder 03.25.04 at 12:49 am
there is an ebook edition (at a price) ; see http://www.ebook-download.net/ebooks/principia-ethica-world-digital-library-edition.php
Phill 03.25.04 at 1:00 am
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.
duncan 03.25.04 at 7:52 pm
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.
duncan 03.25.04 at 7:59 pm
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.
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