EPISODE · Aug 16, 2023 · 53 MIN
1 May 1956: Was Elizabeth Anscombe right to charge Harry Truman with murder?
from The Minefield · host Australian Broadcasting Corporation
When Oxford University proposed to confer an honorary degree on the man who ordered an atomic bomb to be dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, philosopher Elizabeth Anscombe condemned the decision as “shar[ing] in the guilt of a bad action by praise and flattery”.
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