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 (10[1])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, name this G. (10[1])E. M. Anscombe (10[1])paper (10[1])credited with reviving virtue ethics. ■END■