Annette Baier Quotes
Annette Claire Baier was a New Zealand-born moral philosopher and one of the most distinctive analytic voices in late twentieth-century ethics. After studies at Otago and Oxford she taught at Carnegie Mellon and for two decades at the University of Pittsburgh. The quotes below are attributed to Annette Baier, organized by topic.
Annette Baier on Love
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Attributed to Annette Baier:
“Trust is more like the air we breathe than a thing we choose.”
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Attributed to Annette Baier:
“We can only learn what trust is by being entrusted, and by trusting in turn.”
Annette Baier on Virtue
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Attributed to Annette Baier:
“The ethics of trust is more fundamental than the ethics of justice.”
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Attributed to Annette Baier:
“Hume is the moral philosopher of women's experience.”
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Attributed to Annette Baier:
“Moral life is mostly carried on in the second person.”