28 October 2021, The Tablet

The extraordinary women who rescued moral philosophy

by Oliver Letwin

The extraordinary women who rescued moral philosophy

Professor Elizabeth Anscombe: ‘Tales of her eccentricities abounded’
Anscombe Bioethics Centre

 
Moral philosophy was driven up a blind alley by logical positivism and existentialism. It took four extraordinary women to restore the idea of morality and living a good life as something more than a matter of choice and personal taste
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