- Lived:
- 1920–2010 · Lincolnshire, Oxford, Los Angeles
- Tradition:
- Twentieth-century English moral philosophy; the virtue-ethics revival; neo-Aristotelian naturalism
- The Big Idea:
- Goodness is not a feeling we project onto the world but a natural fact about it — living things, humans included, can be good or defective specimens of their kind, and the virtues are what a human being needs.
- In their words:
- "a good nose for what is important"
- If you remember one thing:
- The philosopher who invented the trolley problem was not playing games — she spent sixty years arguing that morality is rooted in what human beings, as the kind of creature we are, need in order to live well.