Iris had spoken on the radio of the unrealistic picture of the human life that she found in both Sartre’s and Hare’s philosophy. Both men pictured themselves as lone subjects, facing a ‘brute and nameless nature’. Philippa was ready to connect this picture with the moral subjectivist’s idea of a deep contrast between statements of fact and evaluation. She would use her insights about the word ‘rude’, first expressed over the clatter of the Lyons’ tea room on Cornmarket, to start to reinstate the connections between descriptive and evaluative language.
