Thanks. The immense confusion I felt while reading MMP a decade ago is all coming back to me! I share your sense that she doesn't seem optimistic about the abi

Thanks. The immense confusion I felt while reading MMP a decade ago is all coming back to me! I share your sense that she doesn't seem optimistic about the ability of secular philosophers to do ethics at all, though it's definitely open to debate, and I don't pretend to know whether she was endorsing virtue ethics. (Regarding her own way of doing ethics, as opposed to meta-ethics, 14 years later, this is one of her speeches: http://www.orthodoxytoday.org/articles/AnscombeChastity.php http://www.orthodoxytoday.org/articles/AnscombeChastity.php).