Foot's Naturalism

Foot's Neo-Aristotelian Naturalism

• Foot: moral judgement characterised by fact that their objects are living things/the actions of living things
• Thus, evaluation of human action depends on essential features of human life

• Aristotelian Necessity: necessary insofar as good hangs on it. Necessary for wolves to hunt in packs, birds to build nests.
• These necessities determine what it is for a member of a species to be as it should be. 
• Arisotelian Categoricals (Michael Thompson): propositions regarding life…