06 December 2006

Anscombe...

The word moral just doesn't seem to fit, in its modern sense, into an account of Aristotelian ethics... If someone professes to be expounding Aristotle and talks in a modern fashion about 'moral' such and such, he must be very imperceptive if he does not constantly feel like someone whose jaws have somehow got out of alignment: the teeth don't come together in a proper bite...

4 Comments:

Blogger morbid misanthrope said...

I don't trust any of those old Greek bastards. They were all child-fuckers. Even the famous pimp Platopuss had a thing for young boys.

14:22  
Blogger BD said...

It's not about judging the person(s) carrying the morality...

14:47  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Are you read in philosophy and morality or something?

10:13  
Blogger BD said...

No, more like maths, computers, science and all things non-fluffy...

15:13  

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