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Publisher
Oxford University Press
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
326 pages
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This the story of four philosophers - Elizabeth Anscombe, Philippa Foot, Mary Midgley, and Iris Murdoch - who helped shape the intellectual history of the 20th century, reviving the ethical imagination of their time and ours. The Second World War gave these four women their chance, as they pursued roles formerly reserved for men. But they succeeded because of their formidable intelligence and because of who they were: a combative Catholic convert...
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