METAPHYSICAL ANIMALS: How Four Women Brought Philosophy Back to Life

LARGE PRINT EDITION. A vibrant portrait of four college friends--Iris Murdoch, Philippa Foot, Elizabeth Anscombe, and Mary Midgley--who formed a new philosophical tradition while Oxford's men were away fighting WWII. Shows how from the disorder and despair of the war, four brilliant friends created a way of ethical thinking that is there for us today. Illus.