Foreign thinker
Philippa Foot
Philippa FootMoral PhilosophyBritish1920–2010
We are not conscripts in the army of virtue, but volunteers.
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Philippa Foot, 1920–2010, was a British moral philosopher and one of the major figures in twentieth-century analytic ethics. She studied and taught at Somerville College, Oxford, and alongside Elizabeth Anscombe, Iris Murdoch, and Mary Midgley was among those who revived virtue ethics in contemporary English-language philosophy.
