Reading list

The Oxford Group are deviating slightly from the main readings in the 2019 sessions. Here's what we'll be reading.

Week 1

17/01/19

Anscombe, ‘Modern Moral Philosophy’ 1958

Available: https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/philosophy/article/modern-moral-philosophy1/9E56836F22C34BE2CE4A3E763691C2FB

Week 2

24/01/19

Anscombe ‘The First Person’ 1975

Available: https://ifac.univ-nantes.fr/IMG/pdf/Anscombe-The_First_Person.pdf

Week 3

31/01/19

Murdoch, ‘The Bell’ 1958

This is one of her novels - should be fairly easy to buy a copy in Oxford 

Week 4

7/02/19

Murdoch ‘Against Dryness’

Week 5 

14/02/19

Simone Weil, ‘Reflection on the Right Use of School Studies with a view to Love of God’ and ‘Love of God and Affliction’ (inc. Waiting on God, 1951)

(Available: http://www.hagiasophiaclassical.com/wp/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/Right-Use-of-School-Studies-Simone-Weil.pdf; https://pacificpilgrim.files.wordpress.com/2016/07/simone-weil-the-love-of-god-and-affliction.pdf)

Week 6

21/02/19

Anscombe, ‘The Reality of the Past’ 

(PDF will be sent round on facebook and email)

Week 7

28/02/18

Foot, Natural Goodness, chapter 3; Michael Thompson ‘Representation of Life: Introductory’ (inc. Life and Action) 

Available: http://www.oxfordscholarship.com/view/10.1093/0198235089.001.0001/acprof-9780198235088; e-version Life and Action is available on SOLO

Week 8

07/03/18

Foot, Natural Goodness, chapter 4

Available: http://www.oxfordscholarship.com/view/10.1093/0198235089.001.0001/acprof-9780198235088