
Episode 88: G.E.M. Anscombe: Should We Use Moral Language?
The Partially Examined Life Philosophy Podcast
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I Don't Want to Be Absolved of It
Oedipus shouldn't understand himself as culpable in any way for having slept with his mother and fathered his sister or whatever it was. He is not guilty of the action, certainly morally. Who would God hold them culpable? Well, that's a question for God and ethics can't really seem to answer that. I think for her, that language of absolution needs to be in a religious framework.
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