A Macat analysis of G.E.M. Anscome's Modern moral philosophy (Record no. 60411)
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| fixed length control field | 02006nam a22001577a 4500 |
| 020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER | |
| ISBN | 9781912127238 |
| 082 ## - DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER | |
| Classification number | 170 |
| Item number | BLA/M |
| 100 ## - MAIN ENTRY--AUTHOR NAME | |
| Personal name | Blamey,Jonny |
| 245 ## - TITLE STATEMENT | |
| Title | A Macat analysis of G.E.M. Anscome's Modern moral philosophy |
| 260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC. (IMPRINT) | |
| Place of publication | London |
| Name of publisher | Macat International |
| Year of publication | 2017 |
| 300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION | |
| Number of Pages | 84p. |
| 520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC. | |
| Summary, etc | 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.<br/><br/>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.<br/><br/>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.<br/><br/>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. |
| 650 ## - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM | |
| Topical Term | Ethics--Psychological aspects |
| -- | Virtue epistemology |
| -- | Justice (Philosophy) |
| -- | Anscombe, G. E. M. (Gertrude Elizabeth Margaret) |
| -- | Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.) |
| 700 ## - ADDED ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME | |
| Personal name | Thompson, Jon W. |
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| Koha item type | BK |
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| Home library | Shelving location | Date acquired | Full call number | Accession Number | Koha item type |
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| Kannur University Central Library | Stack | 06/01/2021 | 170 BLA/M | 51761 | BK |