Philippa Foot
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss one of the most significant philosophers of the twentieth century, Philippa Foot ( - ). Her central question was, “Why be moral?” Drawing on Aristotle and Aquinas, Foot spent her life working through her instinct that there was something lacking in the prevailing philosophy of the s and s which held that values could only be subjective. Could there really be no objective response to the horrors of the concentration camps that she had seen on newsreels, no way of saying that such acts were morally wrong? Foot developed an ethics based on virtues, in which humans needed virtues to flourish as surely as plants needed light and water. While working through her ideas she explored applied ethics and the difference between doing something and letting it happen, an idea she illustrated with what became The Trolley Problem.
With
Anil Gomes
Fellow and Tutor in Philosophy at Trinity College, University of Oxford
Sophie Grace Chappell
Professor of Philosophy at the Open University
And
Rachael Wiseman
Reader in Philosophy at the University of Liverpool
Producer: Simon Tillotson
In Our Time is a BBC Studios Audio Production
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Perfil biográfico: Philippa es especialmente conocida por sus obras sobre ética, a través de las cuales se convirtió en una de las pioneras de los estudios sobre la ética de la virtud. Una de sus anécdotas es el DILEMA DEL TRANVIA que es un experimento mental en ética, ideado por philippa foot. Ella intento una modernización de la teoría ética aristotélica, mostrando que es adaptable al mundo contemporáneo, ademas de eso escribió un libro que se llama BONDAD NATURAL.
Formación filosófica: Una de las ideas mas fascinantes que tenia foot de la antigua filosófica - la existencia de una estrecha relación entre la felicidad y la virtud en los seres humanos - Esto ha sido olvidado por la filosofía moderna. Su posterior carrera marco un cambio significativo en vista de su trabajo en los años y , y puede ser visto como un intento de modernizar la ética. Ella comenzó su carrera en la filosofía como estudiante y tutor en el Somerville collage Oxford.
La filosofía y la sociedad de su época: Había una teoría naturalista de la ética que renovaba la discusión en ese
Philippa Foot
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Interview
Philippa Foot has for decades been one of Oxford’s best-known and most original ethicists. Her groundbreaking papers won her worldwide recognition but at the dawn of the new century she has finally published her first full-length book. Editor Rick Lewis asked her about goodness, vice, plants and Nietzsche.
Your book Natural Goodness has recently been published. I wonder if you could tell us in a few sentences, what is the main idea that you want to get across in the book?
I’m explaining a notion that I have called ‘natural goodness’. An admired colleague of mine, Michael Thompson, has said of my work that I believe that vice is a form of natural defect. That’s exactly what I believe, and I want to say that we describe defects in human beings in the same way as we do defects in plants and animals. I once began a lecture by saying that in moral philosophy it&rsquo
Philippa Foot
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