Anscombe presents three theses in this paper. The first is that it is not profitable for us at present to do moral philosophy, that it should be laid aside until we have an adequate philosophy of psychology. The second is that the concepts of obligation and moral duty and of what is morally right and wrong ought to be jettisoned if this is psychologically possible because they are survivals of earlier long dead theories of ethics. And third, that the differences between the well-known English writers on moral philosophy from Sidgwick to the present day are of little importance.
