The women are up to something : how Elizabeth Anscombe, Philippa Foot, Mary Midgley, and Iris Murdoch revolutionized ethics /
Lipscomb, Benjamin J. Bruxvoort,
The women are up to something : how Elizabeth Anscombe, Philippa Foot, Mary Midgley, and Iris Murdoch revolutionized ethics / How Elizabeth Anscombe, Philippa Foot, Mary Midgley, and Iris Murdoch revolutionized ethics Benjamin J.B. Lipscomb. - xxx, 326 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 22 cm
Includes bibliographical references (pages 277-319) and index.
Preface -- Acknowledgments -- A note on names -- A note to American readers -- Facts and values -- Oxford in wartime -- Daughters of 1919 -- The coming philosophers -- Murdoch's diagnosis -- Elizabeth Anscombe versus the world -- The Somerville senior common room -- Slipping out over the wall -- "Time, life the sea..." -- Notes -- Image credits -- Bibliography -- Index.
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 and ideas of four friends who gave us a better way to think about ethics, and ourselves.
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Anscombe, G. E. M.
Foot, Philippa.
Midgley, Mary, 1919-2018.
Murdoch, Iris.
Women philosophers--History--Great Britain--20th century.
Ethics--History--Great Britain--20th century.
The women are up to something : how Elizabeth Anscombe, Philippa Foot, Mary Midgley, and Iris Murdoch revolutionized ethics / How Elizabeth Anscombe, Philippa Foot, Mary Midgley, and Iris Murdoch revolutionized ethics Benjamin J.B. Lipscomb. - xxx, 326 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 22 cm
Includes bibliographical references (pages 277-319) and index.
Preface -- Acknowledgments -- A note on names -- A note to American readers -- Facts and values -- Oxford in wartime -- Daughters of 1919 -- The coming philosophers -- Murdoch's diagnosis -- Elizabeth Anscombe versus the world -- The Somerville senior common room -- Slipping out over the wall -- "Time, life the sea..." -- Notes -- Image credits -- Bibliography -- Index.
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 and ideas of four friends who gave us a better way to think about ethics, and ourselves.
0197541070 9780197541074
GBC1E7890 bnb
020320458 Uk
Anscombe, G. E. M.
Foot, Philippa.
Midgley, Mary, 1919-2018.
Murdoch, Iris.
Women philosophers--History--Great Britain--20th century.
Ethics--History--Great Britain--20th century.