![]() ![]() They argued that courage and discernment and justice-and love-are the heart of a good life. But when Oxford's men were drafted in the war, everything changed.Īs Elizabeth Anscombe, Philippa Foot, Mary Midgley, and Iris Murdoch labored to make a place for themselves in a male-dominated world, as they made friendships and families, and as they drifted toward and away from each other, they never stopped insisting that some lives are better than others. At the time, only a handful of women had ever made lives in philosophy. On the cusp of the Second World War, four women went to Oxford to begin their studies: a fiercely brilliant Catholic convert a daughter of privilege longing to escape her stifling upbringing an ardent Communist and aspiring novelist with a list of would-be lovers as long as her arm and a quiet, messy lover of newts and mice who would become a great public intellectual of our time. ![]() ![]() ![]() The story of four remarkable women who shaped the intellectual history of the 20th century: Elizabeth Anscombe, Philippa Foot, Mary Midgley, and Iris Murdoch. Oxford Research Encyclopedias: Global Public Health.The European Society of Cardiology Series.Oxford Commentaries on International Law. ![]()
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