Catherine Wilson

A moral rule is essentially 'advantage-reducing.' It prohibits you doing something you could do that would serve your interests at someone else's…

— Catherine Wilson

Atomism had no absolute 'above' and 'below' and no such rulers, so favoured the undersranding of justice as an agreement amongst equals.

— Catherine Wilson

We have to gamble, and sometimes lose as George Ainslie argues; this keeps the appetite for life sharp.

— Catherine Wilson

There is no single test or formula for producing moral progress anymore than there is for generating scientific truths. It is a…

— Catherine Wilson

Epicurus thought that friendship and conviviality, which require present attention rather than being in an alcoholic stupor, as well as trying to…

— Catherine Wilson

For seventeenth-century astronomers, the Epicurean doctrine of multiple worlds separated by void space was seen to fit with the new Copernican system…

— Catherine Wilson

Leibniz accepted the argument that there must be indestructible simple entities if there is to be a complex world, but Epicurean morals…

— Catherine Wilson

I had the idea that there were secret laws of the universe that could explain the baffling human reality around me, and…

— Catherine Wilson

The higher the coefficient of inequality (Gini coefficient) in a society, the worse things tend to be for those at the bottom.

— Catherine Wilson

We call 'Slavery is wrong' a moral truth because there is a specific history of theoretical investigation of a particular kind of…

— Catherine Wilson

Moral theory develops from the divine command theory of medieval Christian philosophy, mixed up with a bit of ancient pagan virtue theory,…

— Catherine Wilson

Human courtship has some wild extremes. At one end of the spectrum, there is harassment, pestering, blackmail, and an abuse of institutional…

— Catherine Wilson

In the old systems, hierarchies emanate power from above to below through forms of line management and are ideologically supported by cosmologies…

— Catherine Wilson

Even if you just want to make a simple clothing item for yourself or go for a long hike in the forest…

— Catherine Wilson

People should be able to develop their abilities and interests and have access to such goods as friendship, artistry, and nature and…

— Catherine Wilson

People formerly seemed unable to evaluate a woman's c.v. or to accept a range of personal and communicative styles from the exuberant…

— Catherine Wilson

We are now returning to the 18th century empirical approach with the new interest in the evolutionary basis of ethics, with 'experimental'…

— Catherine Wilson

About 70% of what I've written about is centered on the clashes and conformities between the emerging life and physical sciences and…

— Catherine Wilson

Epicureanism did inspire libertine culture in isolated sects, but Epicurus himself rejected an ethics of sensory indulgence, and he would have disowned…

— Catherine Wilson

I think we do have a better understanding now of how moral thought and discourse function.

— Catherine Wilson

The life-world of human and animal experience, with colours, tastes, solid objects, is a perceptual effect of massed atoms.

— Catherine Wilson

Claims like 'Slavery is wrong' are not fully common-sensical, so they must be at least partly theoretical.

— Catherine Wilson

Epicurus thought of justice as an agreement to prevent people harming and being harmed.

— Catherine Wilson

We need grief as a precursor to emotional refreshment, and so consume it vicariously in somewhat titrated but powerful enough form through…

— Catherine Wilson

Epicurus was not at all interested in what we would call the problems of mass society, and he thought civic politics was…

— Catherine Wilson