This is the name of a book by the moral philosopher Phillipa Foot. She works in the analytic tradition (Wittgenstein, Anscombe, et al) Readers of Edward Feser (-"The Last Superstition," "Aquinas") will be familiar with her name if not much of her work.
From Amazon'd description:
>>>>>Philippa Foot has for many years been one of the most distinctive and influential thinkers in moral philosophy. Long dissatisfied with the moral theories of her contemporaries, she has gradually evolved a theory of her isown that is radically opposed not only to emotivism and prescriptivism but also to the whole subjectivist, anti-naturalist movement deriving from David Hume. Dissatisfied with both Kantian and utilitarian ethics, she claims to have isolated a special form of evaluation that predicates goodness and defect only to living things considered as such...<<<<
http://www.amazon.com/Natural-Goodne.../dp/019926547X
I wonder if anyone here has given this book serious thought and would like to discuss it.
From Amazon'd description:
>>>>>Philippa Foot has for many years been one of the most distinctive and influential thinkers in moral philosophy. Long dissatisfied with the moral theories of her contemporaries, she has gradually evolved a theory of her isown that is radically opposed not only to emotivism and prescriptivism but also to the whole subjectivist, anti-naturalist movement deriving from David Hume. Dissatisfied with both Kantian and utilitarian ethics, she claims to have isolated a special form of evaluation that predicates goodness and defect only to living things considered as such...<<<<
http://www.amazon.com/Natural-Goodne.../dp/019926547X
I wonder if anyone here has given this book serious thought and would like to discuss it.