Book ID: CBB579952370

The Women Are Up to Something: How Elizabeth Anscombe, Philippa Foot, Mary Midgley, and Iris Murdoch Revolutionized Ethics (2021)

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Lipscomb, Benjamin J. Bruxvoort (Author)


Oxford University Press


Publication Date: 2021
Physical Details: 344
Language: English

The story of four remarkable women who shaped the intellectual history of the 20th century: Elizabeth Anscombe, Philippa Foot, Mary Midgley, and Iris Murdoch. On the cusp of the Second World War, four women went to Oxford to begin their studies: a fiercely brilliant Catholic convert; a daughter of privilege longing to escape her stifling upbringing; an ardent Communist and aspiring novelist with a list of would-be lovers as long as her arm; and a quiet,messy lover of newts and mice who would become a great public intellectual of our time. They became lifelong friends. At the time, only a handful of women had ever made lives in philosophy. But when Oxford's men were drafted in the war, everything changed. As Elizabeth Anscombe, Philippa Foot, Mary Midgley, and Iris Murdoch labored to make a place for themselves in a male-dominated world, as they made friendships and families, and as they drifted toward and away from each other, they never stopped insisting that some lives are better than others. They argued that courage and discernment and justice--and love--are the heart of a good life. This book presents the first sustained engagement with these women's contributions: with the critique and the alternative they framed. Drawing on a cluster of recently opened archives and extensive correspondence and interviews with those who knew them best, Benjamin Lipscomb traces the lives andideas of four friends who gave us a better way to think about ethics, and ourselves.

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Authors & Contributors
Nekrašas, Evaldas
Dylan Simon
Rolando Bellini
Skloot, Rebecca
Stuchlik, Joshua
Stoffel, Jean-François
Concepts
Philosophy
Ethics
Biographies
Philosophy of science
Intellectual history
Science and religion
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20th century
19th century
21st century
18th century
Early modern
Renaissance
Places
England
Florence (Italy)
United States
Italy
France
Europe
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School of Milan
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