Natural goodness
by Philippa Foot · first published 2001
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"Philippa Foot has for many years been one of the most distinctive and influential thinkers in moral philosophy. Long dissatisfied with the moral theories of her contemporaries, she has gradually evolved a theory of her own that is radically opposed not only to emotivism and prescriptivism but also to the whole subjectivist, anti-naturalist movement deriving from David Hume. Dissatisfied also with both Kantian and utilitarian ethics, she claims to have isolated a special form of evaluation that predicates goodness and defect only to living things considered as such: she finds this form of eval
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I have not, but that sounds awesome. Recommending in turn "natural goodness" by Philippa Foot, also a revival of virtue ethics.
on “Nicomachean Ethics” ↗…Fichte, which had always defeated me in intermittent attempts to read it over forty-five years. A Concept of Justice by John Rawls. Everyone talked about it, I hadn't read it. I do need to read it again. Natural Goodness by Philippa Foot. An argument for a more or less Aristotelian understanding of ethics. On Beauty and Being Just by Elaine Scarry. I find her writing on beauty more convincing than her attempt to tie…
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