ElizabethAnscombe

A Provocative Pair of Paragraphs (and a footnote)

“To have a law conception of ethics is to hold that what is needed for conformity with the virtues failure in which is the mark of being a bad qua man (and not merely, say, qua craftsman or logician) — that what is needed for this, is required by divine law. Naturally it is not …

A Provocative Pair of Paragraphs (and a footnote) Read More »

An Anscombe Anecdote

“[Elizabeth Anscombe] came to public notice once again in the mid 1950s when she organized a motion to deny Harry Truman an honorary degree from Oxford University on the grounds that the university should not honor a man who had been the prime instigator in the dropping of atomic bombs on the civilian populations of …

An Anscombe Anecdote Read More »

%d bloggers like this: