Argument Quote by Nomy Arpaly

I am an atheist. I don't think there's anything divine. Beautiful, impressive, awe-inspiring - sure, but not divine.

— Nomy Arpaly

Other things being equal, ill will is worse than moral indifference (as in causing suffering for money vs causing suffering to cause suffering), though…

— Nomy Arpaly

Duties concern things that are voluntary. I do think that if you have a moral duty to bring me back the book you borrowed,…

— Nomy Arpaly

Sometimes I suspect that there are two prototypes of philosophers who write about humans - I call them "celestials" and "terrestrials", without implying that…

— Nomy Arpaly

When you find yourself reluctant to sit on a chair because it had unexpectedly collapsed in the past you might shake your head and…

— Nomy Arpaly

If I make a stupid decision but don't execute it because I'm, say, lazy, then I'm lucky, not rational. However, at other times a…

— Nomy Arpaly

If I am told my loving you had to happen because of some Freudian stuff about my childhood, that might be degrading or deflationary,…

— Nomy Arpaly

I am not committed in any way to the traditional concept of character - the concept of "character trait" as involving predictable behavior. I…

— Nomy Arpaly

I don't think any of my desires or beliefs or other mental states are external to me. Many people will occasionally feel alienated from…

— Nomy Arpaly

Incompatibilists will tell you that a work of art has no meaning unless the artists could have chosen to create a different one, but…

— Nomy Arpaly

Though we think intrinsic desires tend to be pretty stable, we do not think they imply anything like the amount of predictability in behavior…

— Nomy Arpaly

Suppose a student of mine writes in her exam that "morality is completely relative to culture, so nothing is absolutely right or wrong. Because…

— Nomy Arpaly