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Metaphysical Animals: How Four Women Brought Philosophy Back To Life
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A Best Book Of The Year: The New York Times Book Review And The New Yorker A Vibrant Portrait Of Four College Friendsiris Murdoch, Philippa Foot, Elizabeth Anscombe, And Mary Midgleywho Formed A New Philosophical Tradition While Oxford'S Men Were Away Fighting World War Ii.The History Of European Philosophy Is Usually Constructed From The Work Of Men. In Metaphysical Animals, A Pioneering Group Biography, Clare Mac Cumhaill And Rachael Wiseman Offer A Compelling Alternative. In The Midtwentieth Century Elizabeth Anscombe, Mary Midgley, Philippa Foot, And Iris Murdoch Were Philosophy Students At Oxford When Most Male Undergraduates And Many Tutors Were Conscripted Away To Fight In The Second World War. Together, These Young Women, All Friends, Developed A Philosophy That Could Respond To The Wars Darkest Revelations.Neither The Great Enlightenment Thinkers Of The Past, The Logical Innovators Of The Early Twentieth Century, Or The New Existentialist Philosophy Trickling Across The Channel, Could Make Sense Of This New Human Reality Of Limitless Depravity And Destructive Power, The Women Felt. Their Answer Was To Bring Philosophy Back To Life. We Are Metaphysical Animals, They Realized, Creatures That Can Question Their Very Being. Who Am I? What Is Freedom? What Is Human Goodness? The Answers We Give, They Believed, Shape What We Will Become.Written With Expertise And Flair, Metaphysical Animals Is A Lively Portrait Of Women Who Shared Ideas, But Also Apartments, Clothes And Even Lovers. Mac Cumhaill And Wiseman Show How From The Disorder And Despair Of The War, Four Brilliant Friends Created A Way Of Ethical Thinking That Is There For Us Today.
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