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20th century · 1920–2010

Who influenced Philippa Foot?

Influences

Revived virtue ethics and natural goodness against the fact/value gap.

Philippa Foot was influenced by G. E. M. Anscombe. That is 1 line of the 448 documented lines of influence between the 279 thinkers on this map.

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Who was Philippa Foot?

Philippa Foot, born Philippa Bosanquet, was an English philosopher and one of the founders of contemporary virtue ethics, drawing on Aristotle. With Judith Jarvis Thomson she is credited with inventing the trolley problem.

Summarized from the lead of the Wikipedia article.

Who influenced Philippa Foot?

1 direct influence on this map, earliest first.

The line of teachers behind Philippa Foot

The longest documented line of influence ending at Philippa Foot runs 28 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
  29. Philippa Foot

Two steps away from Philippa Foot

Indirect influences

Contemporaries of Philippa Foot

Thinkers on this map born within 25 years of Philippa Foot, with no direct line between them.

Philippa Foot by the numbers

Direct influences
1
Direct followers
0
Thinkers upstream
122
Thinkers downstream
0
Wikipedia languages
33 — #70 of 84 among 20th-century philosophers
Card rarity
Rare

Questions about Philippa Foot

Who influenced Philippa Foot?
G. E. M. Anscombe.
Who did Philippa Foot influence?
No later thinker on this map is recorded as drawing directly on Philippa Foot.
When did Philippa Foot live?
1920–2010. The map files Philippa Foot under the 20th century.
How rare is the Philippa Foot card?
Wikipedia carries an article on Philippa Foot in 33 languages, which makes it a Rare card. Legendary starts at 100 languages, Epic at 50 and Rare at 25.

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