Open AccessThe Task of a Naturalist: An Epitaph for Philippa Foot (1920-2010)
Author(s) -
Piotr Tomasz Makowski
Publication year - 2010
Publication title -
ethics in progress
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 2084-9257
DOI - 10.14746/eip.2010.1.8
Subject(s) - foot (prosody) , epitaph , naturalism , task (project management) , philosophy , art , epistemology , literature , theology , economics , management
Philippa Foot once said: I'm not clever at all. I have a certain insight into philosophy, cost I think. But I'm not clever, I don't find complicated arguments easy to follow(Baggini, 2003). Foot's cleverness enticed many thinkers to take these Gombrowiczian lines seriously.