Human Life, Action and Ethics by G.E.M. Anscombe

Author:G.E.M. Anscombe
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Moral Philosophy, Human Nature, Applied Philosophy, Ethics, Modern Moral Philosophy, morals, morality, Elizabeth Anscombe, political, politics
ISBN: 9781845402716
Publisher: Andrews UK Limited 2011
Published: 2011-11-18T00:00:00+00:00

2Ibid. 40.

3Ibid. 50.

4Ibid. 39–40.

5 This is the Aristotelian general premise which does not appear in von Wright’s examples. It is easily supplied; e.g. ‘Unheated huts in cold climates are uninhabitable by humans’ or ‘Unheated huts are not rendered inhabitable unless they are heated’. But the hypothetical statement seems to make the general one redundant and vice versa. See Section 4.

6 Aristotle, Metaphysics Z. 1032 b7–10.

7Ibid. 25–6.

8 In a special sense: not that the ‘conclusion’ has to be fulfilled or implemented. But the proposition is given the ‘Fiat’ form to shew that it is not being asserted or supposed, but proposed as something to make true.

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