Brewer, Talbot. The Retrieval of Ethics. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2009. Pp. 344. $35.00 [Book Review]

Ethics 122 (4):797-801 (2012)
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Talbot Brewer seeks to follow Elizabeth Anscombe, Iris Murdoch, and Alasdair MacIntyre in "retrieving" philosophical ethics from the grip of bad questions and worse answers. This is an ambitious aim, and Brewer may not entirely succeed. But if he falls short it is in an intelligent, rich, and fecund way. It is what moral philosophy can be like at its best.

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