Virginia Held Quotes
Virginia Held is an American moral and political philosopher, distinguished professor emerita at the City University of New York Graduate Center, and one of the leading philosophical defenders of the ethics of care. The Ethics of Care: Personal, Political, and Global gave the most systematic philosophical statement of care ethics, arguing that the practice of caring relationships, and not the impersonal calculation of utility or the abstraction of universal principles, is the deepest source of moral knowledge. The quotes below are attributed to Virginia Held, organized by topic.
Virginia Held on Knowledge
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“Nancy Polette (2012) (in en). The spy with the wooden leg: the story of Virginia Hall . p. 59. Wikidata Q119154030 . ISBN 978-1-934617-16-8 . OCLC 1285859639 .”
I received my ration card for the month of September today. As I understand it Iam allowed ten ounces of bread per day. Beyond that, my allotments for the month area as follows: 2 ounces of cheese, 25 ounces of fats, 20 ounces of sugar, 10 ounces of meat, and 6 ounces of coffee. And by coffee they mean 2 ounces of real coffee and 4 ounces of some kind of substitute material. No rice, noodles, or c -
“Her first article as a correspondent for the New York Post in August 1941 after she had arrived in Vichy, France as a Spy with her cover being an America journalist.”
I received my ration card for the month of September today. As I understand it Iam allowed ten ounces of bread per day. Beyond that, my allotments for the month area as follows: 2 ounces of cheese, 25 ounces of fats, 20 ounces of sugar, 10 ounces of meat, and 6 ounces of coffee. And by coffee they mean 2 ounces of real coffee and 4 ounces of some kind of substitute material. No rice, noodles, or c -
“I lost many of my friends because they talked to much”
Hall's response when questioned about her wartime work Bonham-Carter ( 31 May 2023 ). Virginia Hall’s Great Escape . BBC. | As recalled by her great-nephew, Brad Catling, recorded after three minutes into Bonham-Carter's BBC Soundcast. -
“Hall's response when questioned about her wartime work Bonham-Carter ( 31 May 2023 ). Virginia Hall’s Great Escape . BBC.”
I lost many of my friends because they talked to much -
“As recalled by her great-nephew, Brad Catling, recorded after three minutes into Bonham-Carter's BBC Soundcast.”
I lost many of my friends because they talked to much
Virginia Held on Love
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“Care is not the opposite of justice; care is the practice from which justice grows.”
Virginia Held on Politics
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“Political philosophy that ignores caregiving misses half of what holds a society together.”
Virginia Held on Virtue
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“We were all dependent before we became autonomous; the ethical life remembers this.”
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“Moral theory begins not in the imagined contract among equals but in the actual care of bodies.”
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“Universal principles are tools; loving attention is the hand that uses them.”