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A Reply to Professor Frankena

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  25 February 2009

Philippa Foot
Affiliation:
Somerville College, Oxford, The University of California at Los Angeles

Extract

Professor Frankena finds himself in a state of bewilderment about my opinions, particularly about those expressed in two recent articles, ‘Morality and Art’ and ‘Morality as a System of Hypothetical Imperatives’, which he discusses in an article pointedly entitled ‘The Philosopher's Attack on Morality’. To say, as he himself does, that he finds these articles ‘somewhat unclear’ seems on the internal evidence to be something of an understatement; he finds them full of uncertainties, contradictions, ambiguities and qualifications, and I do not know how he thinks anyone could have written such stuff.

Type
Discussion
Copyright
Copyright © The Royal Institute of Philosophy 1975

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