Philip Kitcher Quotes About Ethics

Quotes about: Ethics

• A different vision of ethics is that of a collection of resources people can use to act better. The resources might be firm rules that could always be relied on. Or they might be ideals that could often be followed without thinking but that sometimes conflicted with one another.

  Philip Kitcher

  Thinking, Often Is, People

  Source: www.3ammagazine.com

• In ethics, we don't make progress by discovering pre-existent truths; we do so by solving problems.

  Philip Kitcher

  Progress, Ethics, Problem

  Source: www.3ammagazine.com

• Because the problems are objective features of the human situation - social animals without the capacities for making social life come easily - ethics is objectively constrained. It's not the case that "anything goes".

  Philip Kitcher

  Animal, Anything Goes, Ethics

  Source: www.3ammagazine.com

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