Virginia Held Quotes on Love
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. This page collects quotes attributed to Virginia Held on the topic of love, drawn from across the philosopher's works.
Quotes
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Attributed to Virginia Held:
“Care is not the opposite of justice; care is the practice from which justice grows.”
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Attributed to Virginia Held:
“We were all dependent before we became autonomous; the ethical life remembers this.”
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Attributed to Virginia Held:
“Political philosophy that ignores caregiving misses half of what holds a society together.”
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Attributed to Virginia Held:
“Universal principles are tools; loving attention is the hand that uses them.”