Julian Baggini Quotes About Ethics

Quotes about: Ethics

• Some of my understanding of what philosophy and ethics is has changed very slowly. One thing that has changed is this for quite a long time I bought-into the idea that philosophy is basically about arguments. I'm increasingly of the view that it isn't. The most interesting things in philosophy aren't arguments. The thing that I think is underestimated is what I call a form of attending. I think that philosophy is at least as much about carefully attending to things as it is about the structure of arguments.

  Julian Baggini

  Philosophy, Thinking, Interesting

  Source: www.3ammagazine.com

• It may not have the virtuous ring of the golden rule, but the maxim "never say never" is one of the most important in ethics.

  Julian Baggini

  Important, May, Golden

  "Never saying never to torture" by Julian Baggini, www.theguardian.com. May 11, 2011.

• I maintain the importance of an absolute prohibition against torture, while acknowledging that even absolute prohibitions can sometimes be broken. If that is a contradiction, it is a contradiction that ethics has to embrace, or else it becomes like glass: hard, clear, but fatally inflexible.

  Julian Baggini

  Glasses, Broken, Ethics

  "Never saying never to torture" by Julian Baggini, www.theguardian.com. May 11, 2011.

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