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.”
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“Many women of my generation, in many fields, had good reason to be grateful to the women's colleges.”
Judith Jarvis Thomson, "How it Was" Proceedings and Addresses of the American Philosophical Association vol. 87, November 2013, pgs. 109-121