Organic Unities

In Hugh LaFollette (ed.), The International Encyclopedia of Ethics. Hoboken, NJ: Blackwell (2013)
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A short encyclopedia entry on the issue of whether the value of a whole is equal to the sum of the values of its parts.

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Principia Ethica.G. E. Moore - 1903 - Revue de Métaphysique et de Morale 13 (3):7-9.
Principia Ethica.Evander Bradley McGilvary - 1904 - Philosophical Review 13 (3):351.
The origin of our knowledge of right and wrong.Franz Brentano - 1889/1969 - New York,: Humanities Press. Edited by Oskar Kraus & Roderick M. Chisholm.
The Right and the Good.W. D. Ross - 1930 - International Journal of Ethics 41 (3):343-351.

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