The Incoherence of the Moral 'Ought'

Philosophy 70 (271):69 - 85 (1995)
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Elizabeth Anscombe's paper ‘Modern Moral Philosophy’ 1 seems clearly to have failed in its task. Kurt Baier describes the paper as ‘widely discussed and much admired’ 2 and Peter Winch has called one of its three theses ‘enormously influential’ 3 within moral philosophy

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The Dog that Gave Himself the Moral Law.Cora Diamond - 1988 - Midwest Studies in Philosophy 13 (1):161-179.

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