Admirable Quote by Allen W. Wood

It is almost impossible to imagine that any one could be so insensible to the high morality of Mr. Mill's character as to suggest…

— Millicent Fawcett

The Consequentialist trinity is typically regarded in this way: Bentham is crude, Mill's writings are full of howlers and inconsistencies, and Sidgwick was too…

— Dale Jamieson

When it comes to deep and difficult ethical matters - such as the relation of an individual to God, or, I think, an individual…

— Alison Assiter

“John Stuart Mill (20 May 1806 – 8 May 1873), English philosopher, political theorist, political economist, civil servant and Member of Parliament, was an…

— John Stuart Mill

The denial of any distinction between foreseen and intended consequences, as far as responsibility is concerned, was not made by Sidgwick in developing any…

— G. E. M. Anscombe

It is often difficult to know about one's own era which philosophers in it will be remembered as the most important ones, but I…

— Allen W. Wood

All good moral philosophy is ... but the handmaid to religion.

— Francis Bacon

Kant, as we all know, compared moral law to the starry heavens, and found them both sublime. On the naturalistic hypothesis we should rather…

— Arthur Balfour

I have a general moral: great philosophers may be great, but that is not a reason to follow them. Don't be a follower. Work…

— Tim Crane

If no set of moral ideas were truer or better than any other, there would be no sense in preferring civilised morality to savage…

— Anonymous

Some of Kant's particular moral opinions, either because he shared the prejudices of his time, or because of his own personal crotchets, can strike…

— Allen W. Wood

What happens when we examine the claims made for Western liberalism as a universalizing ideology of tolerance, human dignity, equality, and compassion is the…

— Pankaj Mishra