There's Hobbes, who understood in the 1640s that the sovereign is not an appointee of God, or even a figure of superior virtue and wisdom, but just a functional device whose role is to keep people from hurting and killing each other.
I think we do have a better understanding now of how moral thought and discourse function. - Catherine Wilson
I think we do have a better understanding now of how moral thought and discourse function.
- Catherine Wilson
You can reasonably make the intellectual journey from thinking it's permissible to eat shrimp to thinking it's not permissible, or vice versa, wherea… - Catherine Wilson
You can reasonably make the intellectual journey from thinking it's permissible to eat shrimp to thinking it's not permissible, or vice versa, wherea…
Aristotle saw nature as intelligent and purposive, whereas for the Epicureans, and the 17th century 'mechanical' philosophers, there is no intentiona… - Catherine Wilson
Aristotle saw nature as intelligent and purposive, whereas for the Epicureans, and the 17th century 'mechanical' philosophers, there is no intentiona…
For the chemists, who wanted to manufacture new medicines and elixirs and transform base substances into noble ones, the notion that there was no met… - Catherine Wilson
For the chemists, who wanted to manufacture new medicines and elixirs and transform base substances into noble ones, the notion that there was no met…
We call 'Slavery is wrong' a moral truth because there is a specific history of theoretical investigation of a particular kind of slavery. We discuss… - 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 discuss…
About 70% of what I've written about is centered on the clashes and conformities between the emerging life and physical sciences and older metaphysic… - 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 older metaphysic…
The Epicureans denied that the gods had created the world and also denied that they played any role in it. - Catherine Wilson
The Epicureans denied that the gods had created the world and also denied that they played any role in it.
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
For seventeenth-century astronomers, the Epicurean doctrine of multiple worlds separated by void space was seen to fit with the new Copernican system…
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 at… - Catherine Wilson
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 at…
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