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Stuart Hampshire Quotes on Virtue

Stuart Newton Hampshire was a British philosopher and one of the leading figures of postwar Oxford philosophy. This page collects quotes attributed to Stuart Hampshire on the topic of virtue, drawn from across the philosopher's works.

Quotes

  • Attributed to Stuart Hampshire:

    “We are responsible for the actions we could have foreseen and prevented.”

  • Attributed to Stuart Hampshire:

    “Practical reason is the deliberation that ends in choice.”

  • Attributed to Stuart Hampshire:

    “Innocence cannot be preserved against experience; it can only be informed by it.”

  • Attributed to Stuart Hampshire:

    “Spinoza's ethics is a discipline of freedom.”