Abstract

In the late 1950s and 1960s some of the impetus for renewed interest in ethical naturalism came from philosophers like Elizabeth Anscombe, Peter Geach, and Philippa Foot, who acknowledged the influence of Aristotle and Aquinas upon their own thinking. In Goodness and Nature, Peter Simpson argues that this recent ethical naturalism takes insufficient notice of the older tradition of naturalism that stems from Aristotle and Aquinas, and in addition to offering an extended critique of the various trends of Anglo-American meta-ethics during the course of the present century, he offers his own positive account of value and evaluation.