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This essay argues that a certain concept survived outside of the framework that made it intelligible, leaving it with “mere mesmeric force… retaining the suggestion of force… but which no longer signifies a real concept.” In a footnote, this paper’s author dismisses a man in a discussion group who used the improbable example of avoiding a nuclear war by executing an innocent person. This paper excoriates a philosophy derided as a “temptation” elevated to the status of a philosophy in its takedown of (*) Henry Sidgwick. This essay uses the example of buying potatoes from a grocer to illustrate the concept of brute facts. This essay, which argues that we should “jettison” the “moral concept of ‘ought,’” coined the term “consequentialism.” For 10 points, (-5[1])name this G. E. M. Anscombe paper credited with reviving (10[1])virtue ethics. ■END■

ANSWER: Modern Moral Philosophy
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2023 Penn Bowl (Mainsite)10/21/2023Y560%0%0%121.67
2023 Penn Bowl (Harvard)10/21/2023Y250%0%0%134.00
2023 Penn Bowl (UK)10/28/2023Y4100%0%0%119.25
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