[lit-ideas] The Baby Boiler

From: Jlsperanza@xxxxxxx
To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Date: Fri, 24 Apr 2009 01:58:56 EDT
In a message dated 4/23/2009 11:27:40 P.M.  Eastern Daylight Time, 
rpaul@xxxxxxxx writes:
I provided it: the pamphlet,  Mr. Truman's 
Degree, 1956.

Did you think that in providing it I was  signing on to everything she 
said in it?
----

Exactly.

Note  the poor prose of the rightly called 'pamphlet'. I especially dislike 
the  rhetorical question, "Would you choose between boiling one baby and 
...". But  especially the preface to it: "Come now". Sounds like John Lennon, 
"Altogether  now". 

Anyway, she had an agenda against the Oxonian school a la R. M.  Hare and 
P. H. Nowell-Smith. -- Perhaps even P. Foot and others.

In fact,  it seems all moral theory is wrong except hers. 

This leads me to 'sacred  morality'. Anscombe, being a Catholic, would 
count. "Do not commit sodomy" is a  universal prescription for her. Ditto, I 
would assume, "Never use a condom".  They had six children.

Next week there's locally a concert on 'musica  sacra' -- sacred music. 
What counts as such? Rossin's Moses? It seems a bad  combo.

Someone may object that baby-boiler means that she's boiled more  than one. 
But that's implicatural. Cfr. Jack the ripper. 

Incidentally,  here are the words by Truman on receiving his  doctorate:

http:truman.bodley.ac/~truman.pdf.

"Thank you to the body of the university. Hiroshima is  now
a thing of the past. As a doctor of Oxford I can  say..."

more at link above.
Cheers,

JLS  

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