Atoms Quote by 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 expense.

— 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 process involving…

— Catherine Wilson

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

— 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 in which…

— Catherine Wilson

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

— Catherine Wilson

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

— 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 slavery. We…

— Catherine Wilson

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

— Catherine Wilson

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

— Catherine Wilson