It is correct, she believes, to think of requirements ('what is to be done') as, initially, varied and peculiar to different domains of action--what is to be done by a soldier in battle is different from what is to be done by a merchant exchanging goods in the marketplace, etc.
But if one holds that the requirements of practical reason in these various domains are expressions of a 'natural law' (divine) which is promulgated, (promote or make widely known an idea or cause).as it were, in the very nature (inbuilt) of the practical reason that we have, then it becomes possible to view what is required under any virtue as falling under the concept of 'required by divine law'.
source: Modern Moral Philosophy G. E. M. Anscombe
Originally published in Philosophy 33, No. 124
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