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20th century · 1919–2001

Who influenced G. E. M. Anscombe?

Influences and legacy

Wittgenstein's translator who remade ethics around intention and virtue.

G. E. M. Anscombe was influenced by Ludwig Wittgenstein, and went on to influence Philippa Foot and Alasdair MacIntyre. That is 3 lines of the 448 documented lines of influence between the 279 thinkers on this map.

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Who was G. E. M. Anscombe?

Elizabeth Anscombe, a British analytic philosopher, was a student of Wittgenstein, an authority on his work and the editor and translator of his Philosophical Investigations. She taught at Oxford and held a chair at Cambridge, and was a leading figure of analytical Thomism.

Her 1958 article "Modern Moral Philosophy" introduced the word consequentialism into analytic philosophy and helped start modern virtue ethics. Donald Davidson called her book Intention (1957) the most important treatment of action since Aristotle.

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Who influenced G. E. M. Anscombe?

1 direct influence on this map, earliest first.

Who did G. E. M. Anscombe influence?

2 thinkers on this map draw directly on G. E. M. Anscombe.

The line of teachers behind G. E. M. Anscombe

The longest documented line of influence ending at G. E. M. Anscombe runs 27 generations back, to Thales of Miletus.

  1. Thales of Miletus
  2. Anaximenes of Miletus
  3. Anaxagoras
  4. Socrates
  5. Antisthenes
  6. Diogenes of Sinope
  7. Crates of Thebes
  8. Zeno of Citium
  9. Seneca
  10. Tertullian
  11. Augustine of Hippo
  12. Anselm of Canterbury
  13. Peter Lombard
  14. Thomas Aquinas
  15. René Descartes
  16. Thomas Hobbes
  17. Baruch Spinoza
  18. Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz
  19. Christian Wolff
  20. Immanuel Kant
  21. Johann Gottlieb Fichte
  22. F. W. J. Schelling
  23. Georg W. F. Hegel
  24. T. H. Green
  25. F. H. Bradley
  26. Bertrand Russell
  27. Ludwig Wittgenstein
  28. G. E. M. Anscombe

Two steps away from G. E. M. Anscombe

Indirect influences

Contemporaries of G. E. M. Anscombe

Thinkers on this map born within 25 years of G. E. M. Anscombe, with no direct line between them.

G. E. M. Anscombe by the numbers

Direct influences
1
Direct followers
2
Thinkers upstream
121
Thinkers downstream
2
Wikipedia languages
41 — #59 of 84 among 20th-century philosophers
Card rarity
Rare

Questions about G. E. M. Anscombe

Who influenced G. E. M. Anscombe?
Ludwig Wittgenstein.
Who did G. E. M. Anscombe influence?
Philippa Foot and Alasdair MacIntyre.
When did G. E. M. Anscombe live?
1919–2001. The map files G. E. M. Anscombe under the 20th century.
How rare is the G. E. M. Anscombe card?
Wikipedia carries an article on G. E. M. Anscombe in 41 languages, which makes it a Rare card. Legendary starts at 100 languages, Epic at 50 and Rare at 25.

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