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.
Project Gutenburg doesn’t seem to have it.
You may try to find it at channel #bookz in irc.undernet.org
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.
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
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.
there is an ebook edition (at a price) ; see http://www.ebook-download.net/ebooks/principia-ethica-world-digital-library-edition.php
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.
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.
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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