 Foot’s monograph Natural Goodness (2001, NG) and her late essays take up a new approach to the problems she confronted throughout her career. In her final published essay, “Rationality and Goodness” (2004, RG), Foot discusses the case of a farm boy from the Sudetenland who chose to die rather than to serve the  Nazis.[8]  In a letter to his family he writes, 