Background
Foot, Philippa Ruth was born on October 3, 1920 in Owston Ferry, England. Came to the United States, 1975. Daughter of William Sydney Bence and Esther (Cleveland) Bosanquet.
(Una de las ideas más fascinantes de la filosofía antigua ...)
Una de las ideas más fascinantes de la filosofía antigua -la existencia de una estrecha relación entre la felicidad y la virtud en los seres humanos- ha sido en gran medida olvidada por la filosofía moderna. En este significativo ensayo, Philippa Foot recupera esta idea y la fundamenta en una interpretación de la bondad humana como algo dependiente de la naturaleza de nuestra especie. En más de un sentido, la obra demuestra una gran integridad. Escrita con una prosa bella y concisa, y defendida con poderosos argumentos, se convertirá en un clásico de la filosofía moral moderna. Roger Crisp
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(Philippa Foot has for many years been one of the most dis...)
Philippa Foot has for many years been one of the most distinctive and influential thinkers in moral philosophy. Long dissatisfied with the moral theories of her contemporaries, she has gradually evolved a theory of her own that is radically opposed not only to emotivism and prescriptivism but also to the whole subjectivist, anti-naturalist movement deriving from David Hume. Dissatisfied with both Kantian and utilitarian ethics, she claims to have isolated a special form of evaluation that predicates goodness and defect only to living things considered as such; she finds this form of evaluation in moral judgements. Her vivid discussion covers topics such as practical rationality, erring conscience, and the relation between virtue and happiness, ending with a critique of Nietzsche's immoralism. This long-awaited book exposes a highly original approach to moral philosophy and represents a fundamental break from the assumptions of recent debates. Foot challenges many prominent philosophical arguments and attitudes; but hers is a work full of life and feeling, written for anyone intrigued by the deepest questions about goodness and human.
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Foot, Philippa Ruth was born on October 3, 1920 in Owston Ferry, England. Came to the United States, 1975. Daughter of William Sydney Bence and Esther (Cleveland) Bosanquet.
Bachelor, Oxford University, England, 1942. Master of Arts, Oxford University, 1946.
Lecturer Somerville College, Oxford, England, 1947-1950, fellow, tutor, 1950-1969, vice-principal, 1967-1969, senior research fellow, 1970-1988. Professor philosophy University of California at Los Angeles, 1974—2010, Griffin professor, 1988—2010.
(Una de las ideas más fascinantes de la filosofía antigua ...)
(Philippa Foot has for many years been one of the most dis...)
Fellow British Academy, American Academy Arts & Sciences.
Married Michael Richard Daniell Foot, June 21, 1945 (divorced 1960).