穆尔伦理学与“新传记”

G.E.Moor's Prinicipia Ethica and the "New Biography"

本文通过探讨二十世纪初英国哲学家G.E.穆尔的伦理学,揭示“新传记”的反叛性与实验性两个特征与穆尔《伦理学原理》之间的关系。《伦理学原理》的核心思想是“人与人之间的爱和审美享受包括了最大的善”,即重视人与人之间的实在关系,而不是人与神的虚幻唯心关系;重视艺术对道德伦理的作用。这种新思想为“新传记”提供了反传统的精神导向,穆尔的伦理思想成为“新传记”推倒传统观念中的偶像的思想武器,和追求艺术地写作传记的唯美方向标。

This article examines G.E.Moore's Prinicipia Ethica,focusing on the relationship of morals to the two features,iconoclast and experimental,of 'the new biography'.That 'personal affection and aesthetic enjoyment includes the biggest good' is the major notion of Moore's ethics;that is,G.E.Moore lays emphasis on the actual relationship between individuals rather than the idealistic relationship between man and god and stresses the role that art plays on morality.Adopted by 'the new biography',this notion turns to be a predominant guideline of that practice.Moore's ethics is thus deemed as the lethal weapon by 'the new biography' in its iconoclasm and an aesthetic index to life-writing in an artistic way.