Philippa Foot (In Our Time)
1967 · Resource
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss one of the most significant philosophers of the twentieth century, Philippa Foot (1920 - 2010). Her central question was, “Why be moral?” Drawing on Aristotle and Aquinas, Foot spent her life working through her instinct that there was something lacking in the prevailing philosophy of the 1950s and 1960s which held that values could only be subjective.
On these timelines: In Our Time (BBC podcast), Resources: Combined
Around 1967
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- Prague Spring (1968)
- Apollo 11 moon landing (1969)
- Vietnam War (American phase) (1965)
- Yom Kippur War (1973)
- Six-Day War (1967)
- Cuban Missile Crisis (1962)
- Watergate scandal (1972)
- The Beatles (1960)
- Birth of hip-hop (1973)