W. D. Ross
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Scottish philosopher and translator
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- Bachelors Classics University of Oxford
- Bachelors Classics University of Oxford
- PhD Classics University of Oxford
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Sir William David Ross , known as David Ross but usually cited as W. D. Ross, was a Scottish Aristotelian philosopher, translator, WWI veteran, civil servant, and university administrator. His best-known work is The Right and the Good , in which he developed a pluralist, deontological form of intuitionist ethics in response to G. E. Moore's consequentialist form of intuitionism. Ross also critically edited and translated a number of Aristotle's works, such as his 12-volume translation of Aristotle together with John Alexander Smith, and wrote on other Greek philosophy.
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