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II. Human Flourishing

On the Scope of Moral Inquiry

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 October 2008

H. Meynell
H. Meynell
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Lecturer in Philosophy, University of Leeds
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Miss G. E. M. Anscombe has said that, in order for progress to be made in ethics, we must have some determinate idea of ‘human flourishing.’ I want to cite in what follows the work of a number of writers in the psychiatric field who seem to me to throw light on just what it is for a human individual to flourish, for a human community to flourish, and for a human individual to flourish in relation to or in spite of his community.

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Section I: Christian Philosophy and Ethics
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Religious Studies , Volume 5 , Issue 2 , December 1969 , pp. 147 - 154
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1969

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page 148 note 1 The classical exposition of the argument is Moore's, G. E.Principia Ethica.Google Scholar

page 150 note 1 Wittgenstein, , Philosophical Investigations, I, 66–71.Google Scholar

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page 152 note 2 The Michelson-Morley experiment, a foundation-stone of contemporary physics and cosmology, has several times come out ‘wrong’.

page 152 note 3 This seems to have been the root of the persecution that afflicted Galileo.

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