"A vibrant portrait of four college friends-Iris Murdoch, Philippa Foot, Elizabeth Anscombe, and Mary Midgley-who formed a new philosophical tradition while Oxford's men were away at war"-- Four college friends-- Iris Murdoch, Philippa Foot, Elizabeth Anscombe, and Mary Midgley-- came of age during years of tumultuous events: Nazism, the Holocaust, Hiroshima and Nagasaki. The philisophy of the day struck them as inadequate for this new human reality...