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

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



Catherine Wilson Quotes: "I think we do have a better understanding now of how moral thought and discourse function."

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




Catherine Wilson Quotes: "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."

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 Quotes: "Moral claims aren't, as a class, truth-value apt or not."

Moral claims aren't, as a class, truth-value apt or not.




Catherine Wilson Quotes: "There's nothing a priori good about equality. One person has three televisions, the other has two, so what?"

There's nothing a priori good about equality. One person has three televisions, the other has two, so what?



Catherine Wilson Quotes: "It used to be that nobody would really argue with a woman, because what she thought (unless it was by way of providing helpful comments about one's own work) just didn't matter."

It used to be that nobody would really argue with a woman, because what she thought (unless it was by way of providing helpful comments about one's own work) just didn't matter.



Catherine Wilson Quotes: "We need grief as a precursor to emotional refreshment, and so consume it vicariously in somewhat titrated but powerful enough form through engagement with the arts."

We need grief as a precursor to emotional refreshment, and so consume it vicariously in somewhat titrated but powerful enough form through engagement with the arts.




Catherine Wilson Quotes: "There are people who organise the contest, winners, losers, and people who benefit from the contest taking place."

There are people who organise the contest, winners, losers, and people who benefit from the contest taking place.



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

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



Catherine Wilson Quotes: "Epicurus recommends bread and cheese as the staple, and his emphasis is more on avoiding pain than on seeking pleasure, insofar as pleasure-seeking tends to be followed by painful after-effects."

Epicurus recommends bread and cheese as the staple, and his emphasis is more on avoiding pain than on seeking pleasure, insofar as pleasure-seeking tends to be followed by painful after-effects.



Catherine Wilson Quotes: "Even if the gods did exist, the Epicureans argued, they didn't care about us. Rather, everything comes from nature, and all that really exists are atoms and void, moving and congregating."

Even if the gods did exist, the Epicureans argued, they didn't care about us. Rather, everything comes from nature, and all that really exists are atoms and void, moving and congregating.



Catherine Wilson Quotes: "I had the idea that there were secret laws of the universe that could explain the baffling human reality around me, and that philosophers maybe had the key to them."

I had the idea that there were secret laws of the universe that could explain the baffling human reality around me, and that philosophers maybe had the key to them.




Catherine Wilson Quotes: "I have to say that some philosophers such as the late Bernard Williams, and I would include myself in this group, would say that tranquillity is overrated as the goal of life."

I have to say that some philosophers such as the late Bernard Williams, and I would include myself in this group, would say that tranquillity is overrated as the goal of life.



Catherine Wilson Quotes: "The (atomic) soul is mortal, and the best life is the one with the least pain and the most pleasure."

The (atomic) soul is mortal, and the best life is the one with the least pain and the most pleasure.



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

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



Catherine Wilson Quotes: "Epicurus was not at all interested in what we would call the problems of mass society, and he thought civic politics was just trouble and to be avoided by the wise."

Epicurus was not at all interested in what we would call the problems of mass society, and he thought civic politics was just trouble and to be avoided by the wise.



Catherine Wilson Quotes: "Epicurus thought of justice as an agreement to prevent people harming and being harmed."

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



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

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



Catherine Wilson Quotes: "'Contract' succeeded 'status' as the basic organising principle in modern political vs. ancient society."

'Contract' succeeded 'status' as the basic organising principle in modern political vs. ancient society.



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

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