Primary Sources

• Foot, Philippa. Natural Goodness. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 2001.
• Pires, Jorge Guerra. "Philippa Foot: The Architect of Secular Morality and Realism without God." Published in Medium (Atheist Mindset).
• Dialogue Records (Gemini Chat). Transcripts including "Foot: Morality, Reason and Nature" and "Philippa Foot: Objective Secular Morality".

Key Authors and Works Cited in the Sources

The sources reference several philosophers and foundational works essential to the development of Philippa Foot's thought and the broader debate in moral philosophy:

• Anscombe, G. E. M.: Extensively cited for her influence on Foot, particularly for her essays "Modern Moral Philosophy" (1958), "On Promising and its Justice," "Intention," "Rules, Rights and Promises," and "The Two Kinds of Error in Action".
• Aquinas, St. Thomas: Referenced for his teleological structure and the distinction between rational choice and animal instinct in the Summa Theologica.
• Aristotle: His work Nicomachean Ethics serves as the foundation for Foot's revival of naturalism and biological teleology.
• Foot, Philippa: Seminal essays such as "Morality as a System of Hypothetical Imperatives" (1972), "Moral Beliefs" (1958), and the collection Virtues and Vices and Other Essays in Moral Philosophy (1978).
• Geach, Peter: Cited for the article "Good and Evil" (1956), which is essential for the distinction between attributive and predicative adjectives.
• Hume, David: Discussed primarily through A Treatise of Human Nature and An Enquiry Concerning the Principles of Morals, specifically regarding the "practicality requirement" and "Hume's Guillotine".
• Kant, Immanuel: Referenced for his Foundations of the Metaphysics of Morals and the theory of categorical imperatives, which are central targets of Foot's critique.
• Moore, G. E.: Cited for Principia Ethica (1903) and his defense of non-naturalism.
• Quinn, Warren: His book Morality and Action, including the essays "Putting Rationality in its Place" and "Rationality and the Human Good," is noted as a crucial influence on Foot's later shift in position.
• Thompson, Michael: His article "The Representation of Life" is the source for the discussion on "Aristotelian categoricals" and the description of life forms.
• Wittgenstein, Ludwig: Referenced for his Philosophical Investigations and his advice on bringing words back from their metaphysical use to their everyday use.

Additionally, the sources mention dialogues and debates with other prominent thinkers, including Bernard Williams, Christine Korsgaard, John McDowell, A. J. Ayer, C. L. Stevenson, R. M. Hare, and Friedrich Nietzsche.

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