Moral theory and vocabulary in G. E. M. Anscombe's Meanwhile

• Grant number: 18/25733-4
• Support Opportunities: Scholarships in Brazil - Scientific Initiation
• Start date: January 01, 2020
• End date: December 31, 2020
• Field of knowledge: Humanities - Philosophy - Ethics
• Principal Investigator: João Vergílio Gallerani Cuter
• Grantee: André Saponara Vianna Kfouri
• Host Institution: Faculdade de Filosofia, Letras e Ciências Humanas (FFLCH). Universidade de São Paulo (USP). São Paulo , SP, Brazil

Abstract

Following her criticism of modern moral philosophy and its core concept of Ought, Elizabeth Anscombe makes a double sided suggestion: that a new ethical theory could be based on a language of virtues and the philosophy of psychology, and that we should, meanwhile, "banish ethics totally from our minds" and use 'thick' concepts without a theory. Our aim is to investigate the relationship between the two and its implications to the movements of virtue ethics and anti-theory.