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Westermarck, Edward Alexander (1862–1939) Summary
1,716 words, approx. 6 pages Westermarck, Edward Alexander(1862–1939) Edward Alexander Westermarck is best known as an anthropologist and sociologist; he is important in philosophy, however, as an exponent of a subjectivist theory of ethics, which he illustrated and...
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Edvard Westermarck Information
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 Edvard Alexander Westermarck (November 20, 1862 - September 3, 1939) was a Swedish speaking Finnish philosopher and sociologist. Among other subjects, he studied exogamy and the incest taboo. He is known for first noting the Westermarck effect in which...


Literary Criticism
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Critical Essay by Georg Henrik Von Wright
14,121 words, approx. 47 pages
 In the following excerpt, originally published in 1965, Wright relies on unpublished proceedings of the Philosophical Society of Finland to illustrate Westermarck's intellectual development.
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Critical Essay by Timothy Stroup
11,579 words, approx. 39 pages
 In the following excerpt, Stroup urges modern readers to read Westermarck's work without prejudice from his critical detractors.
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Critical Essay by G. E. Moore
10,266 words, approx. 34 pages
 In the following excerpt, Moore disagrees with Westermarck's notion that moral indignation can be consistent from one individual to the next.


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