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Ideas of G.E.M. Anscombe, by Text
[British, 1919 - 2001, Elizabeth Anscombe. Friend of Wittgenstein. Married to Peter Geach. Taught at both Oxford and Cambridge]
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p.15
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Intentional actions are those which are explained by giving the reason for so acting
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1958
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Modern Moral Philosophy
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p.175
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p.175
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8065
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'Ought' and 'right' are survivals from earlier ethics, and should be jettisoned
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p.179
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p.179
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8069
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Between Aristotle and us, a Judaeo-Christian legal conception of ethics was developed
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p.183
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p.183
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It would be better to point to failings of character, than to moral wrongness of actions
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1965
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The Intentionality of Sensation
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p.-2
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The qualities involved in sensations are entirely intentional [Armstrong]
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1971
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Causality and Determinism
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p.90
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Since Mill causation has usually been explained by necessary and sufficient conditions
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p.91
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With diseases we easily trace a cause from an effect, but we cannot predict effects
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p.97
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To believe in determinism, one must believe in a system which determines events
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§2
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p.102
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Freedom involves acting according to an idea
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p.3
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Causation is relative to how we describe the primary relata [Schaffer,J]
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p.93
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p.93
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The word 'cause' is an abstraction from a group of causal terms in a language (scrape, push..)
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