Mary Anne Warren Quotes on Virtue
Mary Anne Warren was an American moral philosopher long associated with San Francisco State University, whose work in applied ethics shaped the late-twentieth-century debates over abortion, animal rights, and the moral status of persons. This page collects quotes attributed to Mary Anne Warren on the topic of virtue, drawn from across the philosopher's works.
Quotes
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Attributed to Mary Anne Warren:
“What matters morally is personhood, not the bare fact of biological humanity.”
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“There is no single criterion of moral status; there are several, and they apply by degree.”
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“To be a person is to be a being with whom moral life can be shared.”
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“Applied ethics begins where general theory ends and concrete cases begin.”