Quotes by Catherine Wilson

Catherine Wilson

Aristotle saw nature as intelligent and purposive, whereas for the Epicureans, and the 17th century ‘mechanical’ philosophers, there is no intentionality in nature except where there are animal minds and bodies.

Animal

Intelligent

Mind

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

Above And Below

Agreement

Justice

Epicureanism did inspire libertine culture in isolated sects, but Epicurus himself rejected an ethics of sensory indulgence, and he would have disowned latter-day ‘Epicureanism’ as a fussy, expensive, unphilosophical approach to eating and drinking.

Culture

Drinking

Inspire

Epicurus was in favour of friendly sex but not of grand passions or marriage and children, viewing them as sources of trouble and vexation.

Children

Passion

Sex

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.

Problem

Trouble

Wise

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.

Atoms

Care

Moving

Gentlemanly, principled, helpful behaviour by older men vis-a-vis young women goes unnoticed, but it deserves real moral credit, and we could use more first-person testimony from the beneficiaries and practitioners about that too.

Behaviour

Men

Real

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.

Keys

Law

Reality

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

Moral

Thinking

Understanding

In the academic setting, you take (typically) lonely, interesting middle-aged men and beautiful, intelligent young women, and everybody’s motivations for display and conquest are engaged to the max. Sublimated, this can be a powerful force for the good – Plato had a lot to say about that – but acted upon it can bring evils without end.

Beautiful

Lonely

Motivation

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Above And Below

Agreement

Animal

Appetite For Life

Arguing

Art

Atoms

Beautiful

Behaviour

Benefits

Bottom

Care

Cheerful

Children

Christian

Class

Common Sense

Culture

Decision

Doubt

Drinking

Everyday

Grief

Higher

Hurt

Ideas

Inequality

Inspire

Intellectual

Intelligent

Jobs

Journey

Justice

Keys

Law

Life Is

Lonely

Loser

Loss

Men

Mind

Moral

Motivation

Moving

Numbers

Order

Origin Of Life

Pain

Passion

People

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Quotes by Catherine Wilson

Catherine Wilson

Aristotle saw nature as intelligent and purposive, whereas for the Epicureans, and the 17th century ‘mechanical’ philosophers, there is no intentionality in nature except where there are animal minds and bodies.

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

Epicureanism did inspire libertine culture in isolated sects, but Epicurus himself rejected an ethics of sensory indulgence, and he would have disowned latter-day ‘Epicureanism’ as a fussy, expensive, unphilosophical approach to eating and drinking.

Epicurus was in favour of friendly sex but not of grand passions or marriage and children, viewing them as sources of trouble and vexation.

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.

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.

Gentlemanly, principled, helpful behaviour by older men vis-a-vis young women goes unnoticed, but it deserves real moral credit, and we could use more first-person testimony from the beneficiaries and practitioners about that too.

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

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