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Modern Moral Philosophy (Hardcover)
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Modern Moral Philosophy (Hardcover)
Series: The Macat Library
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Elizabeth Anscombe's 1958 essay "Modern Moral Philosophy" is a
cutting intervention in modern philosophy that shows the full power
of good evaluative and analytical critical thinking skills. Though
only 16 pages long, Anscombe's paper set out to do nothing less
than reform the entire field of modern moral philosophy - something
that could only be done by carefully examining the existing
arguments of the giants of the field. To do this, she deployed the
central skills of evaluation and analysis. In critical thinking,
analysis helps understand the sequence and features of arguments:
it asks what reasons these arguments produce, what implicit reasons
and assumptions they rely on, what conclusions they arrive at.
Evaluation involves judging whether or not the arguments are strong
enough to sustain their conclusions: it asks how acceptable,
adequate, and relevant the reasons given are, and whether or not
the conclusions drawn from them are really valid. In "Modern Moral
Philosophy," Anscombe dispassionately turns these skills on figures
that have dominated moral philosophy since the 18th-century,
revealing the underlying assumptions of their work, their
weaknesses and strengths, and showing that in many ways the
supposed differences between their arguments are actually
negligible. A brilliantly incisive piece, "Modern Moral Philosophy"
radically affected its field, remaining required - and
controversial - reading today.
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