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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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The Aristotelian Alternative to Morality

"There is no such thing as morality as ethicists typically think of it," he says. "It's not an innovation to say if you want to flourish or if this or if that, then you ought to do this." The Aristotelian alternative is not what most ethicists would consider even rising to the level of moral language,. He argues there are actual failings that we might just call intellectual failings that he would call moral failings.

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