Question 1

What is the best book to start with?

Accepted Answer

'Modern Moral Philosophy', the whole paper, not the one sentence. The sentence is a proposal about a vocabulary. The paper says what she wants instead, and what she thinks is missing from the psychology.

Question 2

What is the most famous quote?

Accepted Answer

This library does not measure fame, and it does not rank lines by how often they are shared. The first line it files for G. E. M. Anscombe that is not marked Questionable or Misattributed is “The concepts of obligation and duty — moral obligation and moral duty, that is to say — and of what is morally right and wrong, and of the moral sense of 'ought', ought to be jettisoned if this is psychologically possible.” ('Modern Moral Philosophy', Philosophy 33 (1958), Well attested).

Question 3

What is the most misquoted line?

Accepted Answer

None of the lines this library files for G. E. M. Anscombe is marked Misattributed or Questionable. That is a fact about these cards, not a certificate that every popular sentence is theirs.

Question 4

What is one key idea, in a sentence?

Accepted Answer

Moral 'ought': A leftover of law, in her diagnosis, once the lawgiver is gone.