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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 There a Right to Use Violence?

Non-Christians who see the teachings of Jesus as very strict and basically that they're unworkable. She wants to apply those sorts of prohibitions at a much more specific level of individual action. We should be able to talk about what are the circumstances that make that unjust, even things that end up being unjust are unjust in virtue of circumstances. And it's the circumstances that makes them like forbidden.

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