“The life-world of human and animal experience, with colours, tastes, solid objects, is a perceptual effect of massed atoms.” WorldHumansAnimalEffectsObjectsTasteColourAtomsHumans And Animals Author: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 maybe had the key to them.” HumansIdeasRealityLawUniverseSecretKeysPhilosopher Author:Catherine Wilson
“Maybe we will get to this point and reach a decision one way or the other with 'Human cloning is acceptable,' but I doubt that it is ever going to happen for 'It is morally permissible to eat shrimp' or with the general formula 'Adultery is wrong,' whose intended extension is again very unclear.” WayHumansHappensDecisionDoubtOne WayFormulasAcceptableExtensionsAdulteryUnclearCloningShrimpHuman Cloning Author:Catherine Wilson
“If you live in an acquisitive society you are likely to be acquisitive, but it isn't deeply rooted in human nature, except in the sense that it's deeply rooted to be psychologically receptive to your peers and to advertising.” IfsHumansHuman NatureAdvertisingRootedPeersReceptive Author: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 its targets rightly fear and loathe. At the other end is love, which as Nietzsche said, is beyond good and evil and always deserves our respect and compassion even when it is doomed or destructive. In the wide middle of the spectrum are all the ambiguous and tragi-comic goings-on of our species.” HumansSaidEndsEvilCompassionMiddleDeserveAbuseSpeciesExtremesWideComicDestructiveGood And EvilTargetDoomedSpectrumHarassmentAmbiguousCourtshipLoatheBlackmailBeyond Good And Evil Author:Catherine Wilson