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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.