The Women Are Up to Something
The Women Are Up to Something

Author: Benjamin J. Bruxvoort Lipscomb

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Published: 2021

Total Pages: 361

ISBN-13: 0197541070

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Résumé éditeur : This book tells two intertwined stories, centered on twentieth-century moral philosophers Elizabeth Anscombe, Mary Midgley, Philippa Foot, and Iris Murdoch. The first is the story of four friends who came up to Oxford together just before WWII. It is the story of their lives, loves, and intellectual preoccupations; it is a story about women trying to find a place in a man's world of academic philosophy. The second story is about these friends' shared philosophical project and their unintentional creation of a school of thought that challenged the dominant way of doing ethics. That dominant school of thought envisioned the world as empty, value-free matter, on which humans impose meaning. This outlook treated statements such as “this is good” as mere expressions of feeling or preference, reflecting no objective standards. It emphasized human freedom and demanded an unflinching recognition of the value-free world. The four friends diagnosed this moral philosophy as an impoverishing intellectual fad. This style of thought, they believed, obscured the realities of human nature and left people without the resources to make difficult moral choices or to confront evil. As an alternative, the women proposed a naturalistic ethics, reviving a line of thought running through Plato, Aristotle, and Aquinas, and enriched by modern biologists like Jane Goodall and Charles Darwin. The women proposed that there are, in fact, moral truths, based in facts about the distinctive nature of the human animal and what that animal needs to thrive."

Southern Reporter
Southern Reporter

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Published: 1909

Total Pages: 1182

ISBN-13:

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Includes the decisions of the Supreme Courts of Alabama, Florida, Louisiana, and Mississippi, the Appellate Courts of Alabama and, Sept. 1928/Jan. 1929-Jan./Mar. 1941, the Courts of Appeal of Louisiana.

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Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand

Published:

Total Pages: 706

ISBN-13: 3368721089

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Emanuel Law Outlines for Family Law
Emanuel Law Outlines for Family Law

Author: D. Kelly Weisberg

Publisher: Aspen Publishing

Published: 2014-04-15

Total Pages: 424

ISBN-13: 1454832819

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