Ep. 369: Philippa Foot's Naturalistic Ethics (Part One)
The Partially Examined Life · Mark Linsenmayer
June 16, 202547m 45s
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Show Notes
On Natural Goodness (2001). Can we base ethics on the model of biology? Foot argues that just as we understand what a healthy specimen of a plant or animal is, so there is a natural way for humans to work properly, which will include the ability to will according to reflective reasoning.
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