Anscombe’s Moral Epistemology and the Relevance of Wittgenstein’s Anti-Scepticism

Elizabeth Anscombe is well-known for her insistence that there are absolutely prohibited actions, though she is somewhat obscure about why this is so. Nonetheless, I contend in this paper that Anscombe is more concerned with the epistemology of absolute prohibitions, and that her thought on connatur...

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Published in:	Enrahonar: Quaderns de Filosofia
Main Author:	Michael Wee
Format:	Article
Language:	Catalan
Published:	Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona 2020-03-01
Subjects:	connatural knowledge virtue ethics “Modern Moral Philosophy” ethical intuitionism Aquinas natural law
Online Access:	https://revistes.uab.cat/enrahonar/article/view/1277

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