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“there are moral truths, grounded in the distinctive nature of our species—in facts about what human beings need if they are going to thrive. They drew on neglected ancient resources—Plato, and especially Aristotle—but also on Charles Darwin and Jane Goodall, to explain how we are less exceptional than we imagine, and more at home in the world.”
― Benjamin J.B. Lipscomb, The Women Are Up to Something: How Elizabeth Anscombe, Philippa Foot, Mary Midgley, and Iris Murdoch Revolutionized Ethics

“I am Sadly Theoretical: It is the Effect of being at Oxford,” in The Catholic Herald, July 8, 1938.”
― Benjamin J.B. Lipscomb, The Women Are Up to Something: How Elizabeth Anscombe, Philippa Foot, Mary Midgley, and Iris Murdoch Revolutionized Ethics