Philippa Foot 1920 – 2010
Philippa Foot (1920 – 2010) was a British philosopher of the Contemporary era, associated with Analytic Philosophy.
Philippa Foot was a British analytic philosopher and one of the principal figures in the twentieth-century revival of virtue ethics. A founder of Oxfam and a longtime fellow of Somerville College, Oxford, she argued in a sequence of influential papers, collected in Virtues and Vices, that moral judgment is rooted in facts about human flourishing rather than in non-cognitive attitudes. Her late book Natural Goodness develops this naturalist conception of ethics, drawing on the work of Anscombe and on classical and Aristotelian sources. The trolley problem in moral philosophy originated in one of her early papers.
Key facts
- Nationality
- British
- Era
- Contemporary
- Movements
- Analytic Philosophy
Selected quotes
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Attributed to Philippa Foot:
“Goodness is, as it were, built into the very nature of human life.”
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Attributed to Philippa Foot:
“There is in fact a special connection between virtue and human happiness.”
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“Virtues are habits of the will.”
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“Hypothetical imperatives can be more demanding than categorical ones.”
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“The grounding of moral judgement is to be found in facts about what human beings are.”
Philippa Foot by topic
Frequently asked about Philippa Foot
- When did Philippa Foot live?
- Philippa Foot was born in 1920 and died in 2010.
- Where was Philippa Foot from?
- Philippa Foot was a British philosopher of the Contemporary era.
- What philosophical movements is Philippa Foot associated with?
- Philippa Foot was associated with Analytic Philosophy.
- What was Philippa Foot known for?
- Philippa Foot was a British analytic philosopher and one of the principal figures in the twentieth-century revival of virtue ethics.
- How many quotes are attributed to Philippa Foot?
- There are 9 attributed quotations from Philippa Foot in the 1001Philosophers collection, organized by topic.