The life-world of human and animal experience, with colours, tastes, solid objects, is a perceptual effect of massed atoms.
Catherine WilsonIn the old systems, hierarchies emanate power from above to below through forms of line management and are ideologically supported by cosmologies and theologies featuring celestial rulers and their deputies - the 'rule of the best.'
Catherine WilsonThe Epicureans denied that the gods had created the world and also denied that they played any role in it.
Catherine WilsonA moral rule is essentially 'advantage-reducing.' It prohibits you doing something you could do that would serve your interests at someone else's expense.
Catherine WilsonThere are people who organise the contest, winners, losers, and people who benefit from the contest taking place.
Catherine WilsonHighly unequal societies are morally defective because they get to be that way through the exploitation by the clever and well-positioned ones of the vulnerabilities and weaknesses of others. The well-off then use their acquired political power to refuse to make sacrifices for others. This system brings us a wonderful range of products and experiences for consumers at the top of the privilege scale, but it also degrades and benumbs the workers at the lower end, as Adam Smith and Marx both said.
Catherine Wilson