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Anscombe's paper was rightly credited with having helped start up the renewed interest in Aristotelian ethics, an interest which produced what is now often called 'virtue ethics'.
the undoubted giant among women philosophers, a writer of immense breadth, authority and penetration.
{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link){{cite book}}: CS1 maint: others (link){{cite journal}}: CS1 maint: DOI inactive as of November 2024 (link)On 1st May 1956, Oxford University's Convocation ...considered nominations for honorary degrees ... One of the nominations was Harry S. Truman ... Anscombe ..."caused a small stir" ... by arguing that the nomination should be rejected on the grounds that Truman was guilty of mass murder ... Anscombe's speech did not persuade ...The House was asked to indicate its attitude toward the nomination, and showed overwhelming support. ... On 20th June, Truman was awarded his honorary degree
On 1st May 1956, Oxford University's Convocation ...considered nominations for honorary degrees ... One of the nominations was Harry S. Truman ... Anscombe ..."caused a small stir" ... by arguing that the nomination should be rejected on the grounds that Truman was guilty of mass murder ... Anscombe's speech did not persuade ...The House was asked to indicate its attitude toward the nomination, and showed overwhelming support. ... On 20th June, Truman was awarded his honorary degree
Anscombe ... was a vigorous opponent of the use of nuclear weapons and led a protest of Oxford's awarding a degree to President Harry Truman on the grounds that a mass-murderer should not be so honoured. She was also a fierce opponent of abortion; on one occasion late in her life, she had to be dragged bodily by police away from a sit-in at an abortion clinic.
Anscombe ... opposed Britain's entry into World War II on the grounds that fighting the war would certainly involve killing non-combatants. When Oxford decided to award the U.S. president Harry Truman an honorary degree in 1956, Anscombe protested vigorously, arguing that the atomic bombing of innocent civilians at Hiroshima and Nagasaki disqualified him for such an honour.
{{cite journal}}: CS1 maint: DOI inactive as of November 2024 (link)In the autumn of 1939, while still an undergraduate, she and a friend wrote a pamphlet entitled The Justice of the Present War Examined. In this, Elizabeth Anscombe argued that while Britain was certainly fighting against an unjust cause, it was not fighting for a just one. ... Subsequently, the Catholic Archbishop of Birmingham told the two students to withdraw the pamphlet because they had described it as Catholic without getting a Church licence.
when writing my C. S. Lewis: a Companion and Guide (1996). Lewis told me in 1963 that he thought he won the debate with Anscombe at the Socratic Club in 1948. However, he accepted that he had been unclear and revised Chapter III of the book. Ironically, many philosophers disagree with Anscombe's argument, and maintain that the original chapter was philosophically sound, and that Lewis did not need to rewrite it. It is also not true that Lewis "never again wrote straightforward polemics for Christianity". In 1952, he revised his BBC wartime broadcasts as Mere Christianity. That book has probably caused more people to accept the faith than any other philosophical tome of the last century. Lewis was a man of such titanic imagination that he didn't need to go over and over the same ideas. It was not fear of Anscombe or anyone else that caused him to write the seven incomparable Chronicles of Narnia in the 1950s. Three theological works followed them.
In the autumn of 1939, while still an undergraduate, she and a friend wrote a pamphlet entitled The Justice of the Present War Examined. In this, Elizabeth Anscombe argued that while Britain was certainly fighting against an unjust cause, it was not fighting for a just one. ... Subsequently, the Catholic Archbishop of Birmingham told the two students to withdraw the pamphlet because they had described it as Catholic without getting a Church licence.
when writing my C. S. Lewis: a Companion and Guide (1996). Lewis told me in 1963 that he thought he won the debate with Anscombe at the Socratic Club in 1948. However, he accepted that he had been unclear and revised Chapter III of the book. Ironically, many philosophers disagree with Anscombe's argument, and maintain that the original chapter was philosophically sound, and that Lewis did not need to rewrite it. It is also not true that Lewis "never again wrote straightforward polemics for Christianity". In 1952, he revised his BBC wartime broadcasts as Mere Christianity. That book has probably caused more people to accept the faith than any other philosophical tome of the last century. Lewis was a man of such titanic imagination that he didn't need to go over and over the same ideas. It was not fear of Anscombe or anyone else that caused him to write the seven incomparable Chronicles of Narnia in the 1950s. Three theological works followed them.
{{cite journal}}: CS1 maint: DOI inactive as of November 2024 (link)The philosophy examiners wanted to give her a First ... but the ancient history examiners would agree to this only on condition that she showed a minimum knowledge of their subject in a viva voce (oral) examination. Anscombe's performance ... was less than spectacular... To the last two questions she answered 'No', these being 'Can you give us the name of a Roman provincial governor?' and (in some desperation) 'Is there any fact about the period you are supposed to have studied which you would like to tell us?' The examiners cannot have been well pleased, but somehow or other ended up being persuaded by the philosophers ... As Michael Dummett writes in his obituary ... 'For the [ancient historians] to have yielded, her philosophy papers must have been astonishing'.
{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link){{cite book}}: CS1 maint: others (link)In the autumn of 1939, while still an undergraduate, she and a friend wrote a pamphlet entitled The Justice of the Present War Examined. In this, Elizabeth Anscombe argued that while Britain was certainly fighting against an unjust cause, it was not fighting for a just one. ... Subsequently, the Catholic Archbishop of Birmingham told the two students to withdraw the pamphlet because they had described it as Catholic without getting a Church licence.
Anscombe ... opposed Britain's entry into World War II on the grounds that fighting the war would certainly involve killing non-combatants. When Oxford decided to award the U.S. president Harry Truman an honorary degree in 1956, Anscombe protested vigorously, arguing that the atomic bombing of innocent civilians at Hiroshima and Nagasaki disqualified him for such an honour.
the undoubted giant among women philosophers, a writer of immense breadth, authority and penetration.