Annette Baier Quotes on Virtue
Annette Claire Baier was a New Zealand-born moral philosopher and one of the most distinctive analytic voices in late twentieth-century ethics. This page collects quotes attributed to Annette Baier on the topic of virtue, drawn from across the philosopher's works.
Quotes
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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:
“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:
“We can only learn what trust is by being entrusted, and by trusting in turn.”
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Attributed to Annette Baier:
“Moral life is mostly carried on in the second person.”