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Full Idea
We describe defects in human beings in the same way as we do defects in plants and animals. …You cannot talk about a river as being defective.
Gist of Idea
Human defects are just like plant or animal defects
Source
Philippa Foot (Interview with Philippa Foot [2003], p.33)
Book Ref
-: 'Philosophy Now' [-], p.33
A Reaction
This is a much clearer commitment to naturalistic ethics than I have found in her more academic writings. My opinion of Foot (which was already high) went up when I read this interview. …She says vice is a defect of the will.
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| 6924 | Plotinus was ashamed to have a body [Feuerbach] |
| 1568 | Nietzsche felt that Plato's views downgraded the human body and its brevity of life [Nietzsche, by Roochnik] |
| 7147 | Values are innate and inherited [Nietzsche] |
| 7190 | Our values express an earlier era's conditions for survival and growth [Nietzsche] |
| 18297 | We created meanings, to maintain ourselves [Nietzsche] |
| 22660 | Evolution suggests prevailing or survival as a new criterion of right and wrong [James] |
| 23431 | Human defects are just like plant or animal defects [Foot] |
| 22187 | Genetic behaviours that have enhanced human success include aggression, rape and xenophobia [Wilson,EO, by Okasha] |
| 23515 | Human exceptionalism plagues biology, and most other human thinking [Seth] |