Principia Ethica
Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 1903 (first edition).
Octavo, xxviii, 232 pages.
Cloth lightly marked and scuffed, with minor wear to the extremities; top margin of sixteen consecutive leaves lightly bumped; trifling signs of use and age; a very good copy.
'"Principia Ethica" is recognised as the definitive starting point for twentieth-century ethical theory. Its influence was first largely confined to the Bloomsbury Group - Maynard Keynes wrote that it was "better than Plato" - who took it up for its celebration of the values of art and love; but later it achieved the widespread recognition it still retains as a classic text of analytic ethical theory' (from the blurb of a recent Cambridge University Press edition). With the pencilled ownership initials of Sir William Mitchell (1861-1962), appointed in 1894 to 'the Hughes professorship of English language and literature and mental and moral philosophy in the University of Adelaide' ('Australian Dictionary of Biography').
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