ABSTRACT
This story suggests that from the start of his interest in philosophy Moore was antagonistic towards the idealist philosophy of McTaggart and others, and that his rejection of idealism was the response of a stubborn common-sense to the monstrous claims of that philosophy. But the truth is more complex. For, as Moore also says in his autobiography, of those who taught him philosophy at Cambridge, he was least impressed by Sidgwick, a formidable critic of idealism, and most impressed by McTaggart, who converted him to idealism, and made him an ‘enthusiastic admirer’ of F.H.Bradley (PGEM p. 22).
