The Influence of Victor White and the Blackfriars Dominicans on a young Elizabeth Anscombe

An Essay accompanying the Republication of G.E.M. Anscombe's ‘I am Sadly Theoretical: It is the Effect of Being at Oxford’ (1938)

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ID21363638
AutoresJohn Berkman (0000-0002-9558-0559, Regis College, autor de correspondencia)
Año2021
Volumen102
Número1101
Páginas706-723
Fecha de publicación2021-09-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessSí
TipoARTICLE
RevistaNew Blackfriars (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 0028-4289 • E-ISSN: 1741-2005
EditorialCambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1111/nbfr.12693
OpenAlexW3205258185
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas2
Referencias citadas6

This essay examines the Dominican influences on the Catholic philosopher G.E.M. Anscombe while an undergraduate at Oxford University between 1937–1941. It focuses on three Thomists who formally instructed Anscombe and how one Dominican, Victor White, likely instructed her on a radically Catholic perspective regarding the morality of warfare, which would not only influence her 1940 co-authored pamphlet, ‘The Justice of the Present War Examined’, but would shape her writings on war and murder for her entire academic career. This essay accompanies the republication of Anscombe's ‘I am Sadly Theoretical: It is the Effect of Being at Oxford,’ her earliest known published essay. She wrote this article in response to a public invitation from the Catholic Herald for Catholics between the ages of 18 and 25 to make their voices heard by their fellow Catholics. In this teenage apologia, Anscombe outlines the goals for her life, and what it means for her as a Catholic to be a witness

Economic Justice · Epistemology · Morality · Political science · Sociology · White (mutation) · Witness · American Constitutional Law and Politics · Catholicism and Religious Studies · Classics · History · Law · Philosophy · Religion, Gender, and Enlightenment · Religious studies