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Episode 88: G.E.M. Anscombe: Should We Use Moral Language?

The Partially Examined Life Philosophy Podcast

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Is It Morally Defensible for Him to Be Poisoning These People?

There's a lot of intention to become relevant, she has to recover the idea that our intentions matter to the actions that we do. She doesn't want to solve that problem where she says like, Oh, great. So here's a description of what's going on. To deal with this, lots of different descriptions, it has to be the case that when someone intends something or we can decide what a person intends. And once we know what they intend, we have a better sense of how what they're doing affects them.

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