Modern Moral PhilosophyAlthough this collection of articles is not formally a commentary on Elizabeth Anscombe's famous article of the same title, in which she criticised the moral philosophy prevalent in 1958, a number of the contributors do take Anscombe's work as a starting point. Taken together the collection could be seen as a demonstration of the extent to which moral philosophers have since attempted to answer Anscombe's challenge, and to develop an approach to their subject which, while psychologically plausible, is neither based on divine law nor permissive of the impermissible. |
Contents
Rationality and Goodness | 1 |
Acting Well | 15 |
Apprehending Human Form | 47 |
Does Modern Moral Philosophy Rest on a Mistake? | 75 |
Absolutes and Particulars1 | 95 |
On the socalled Logic of Practical Inference | 119 |
Absolute Prohibitions without Divine Promises | 141 |
Moral Obligation | 159 |
Common terms and phrases
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