Judith Jarvis Thomson Quotes on Virtue
Judith Jarvis Thomson was an American moral and metaphysical philosopher and a long-serving professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. This page collects quotes attributed to Judith Jarvis Thomson on the topic of virtue, drawn from across the philosopher's works.
Quotes
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Attributed to Judith Jarvis Thomson:
“We have rights, but we also have duties to one another.”
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Attributed to Judith Jarvis Thomson:
“The trolley problem reveals the structure of our moral intuitions.”
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Attributed to Judith Jarvis Thomson:
“What you may not do is not always what you must not allow to happen.”
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Attributed to Judith Jarvis Thomson:
“Careful description of cases is the first task of moral philosophy.”