Human Life, Action and Ethics: Essays by G.E.M. Anscombe
by: G.E.M. Anscombe

Softcover. Charlottesville VA, Imprint Academic, 1st, 2005, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 298 pages. This volume presents a collection of essays by the celebrated philosopher Elizabeth Anscombe. This collection includes papers on human nature and practical philosophy, together with the classic 'Modern Moral Philosophy'.Anscombe (1919-2001) read classics and philosophy at St Hugh's College, Oxford from 1937 to 1941 in which year she married the philosopher Peter Geach. She subsequently researched in philosophy at Newnham College, Cambridge where she became a student and friend of Ludwig Wittgenstein. One of his literary executors, she played a large part in editing his unpublished works and was their principal English translator. Clean copy.