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Catherine Wilson (1822 – 20 October 1862) was a British serial killer who was hanged for one murder, but was generally thought at the time to have committed six others. She worked as a nurse and poisoned her victims after encouraging them to leave her money in their wills. She was described privately by the sentencing judge as "the greatest criminal that ever lived."

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The (atomic) soul is mortal, and the best life is the one with the least pain and the most pleasure.

Life, Life Is, Pain, Pleasure, Soul

Oddly, since by now I've written quite a lot on early modern philosophers, I didn't care for the history of philosophy, which I thought dull and obscure, until I got a minor job writing articles for a children's encyclopedia in the history of science and began to make connections between science and philosophy.

Children, Jobs, Make, Philosophy, Science, Thought

Moral theory develops from the divine command theory of medieval Christian philosophy, mixed up with a bit of ancient pagan virtue theory, to the purely secular moral sentiment and interpersonal reaction theories of Smith and Hume, to Kant's attempt to restore command theory but with something supersensible in the individual rather than God as the source of authority.

Christian, Interpersonal, Moral, Philosophy, Secular, Theory

I don't see how being a faster runner, or a better mathematician makes you 'deserve' access to a better life, or more influence on policy, in the absence of a social decision to play that game in the way it's proposed to be organised for some set of benefits.

Access, Decision, Faster, Games, Mathematician, Play

Moral claims aren't, as a class, truth-value apt or not.

Apt, Claims, Class, Moral

The Epicureans denied that the gods had created the world and also denied that they played any role in it.

Roles, World, Epicurean, Created, Denied, Role

Epicurus recommends bread and cheese as the staple, and his emphasis is more on avoiding pain than on seeking pleasure, insofar as pleasure-seeking tends to be followed by painful after-effects.

Bread, Pain, Painful, Pleasure Seeking, Staple

There is no single test or formula for producing moral progress anymore than there is for generating scientific truths. It is a process involving theoreticians, fact-gatherers, protestors, martyrs for the cause, authors of first- person narratives who change the way we see and evaluate the distribution of harms and benefits.

Causes, Firsts, Martyrs, Progress, Single, Way

Claims like 'Slavery is wrong' are not fully common-sensical, so they must be at least partly theoretical.

Claims, Common, Partly, Slavery, Theoretical

If you live in an acquisitive society you are likely to be acquisitive, but it isn't deeply rooted in human nature, except in the sense that it's deeply rooted to be psychologically receptive to your peers and to advertising.

Advertising, Deeply, Human Nature, Nature, Peers, Sense

You can find many philosophy papers on the themes of 'love' and 'friendship,' most of which are cheerful and somewhat anodyne; you don't find many on the loss of friends, relatives, and lovers from death or alienation, though it happens all the time.

Death, Friendship, Loss, Love And Friendship, Philosophy, Themes

Human courtship has some wild extremes. At one end of the spectrum, there is harassment, pestering, blackmail, and an abuse of institutional power, which its targets rightly fear and loathe. At the other end is love, which as Nietzsche said, is beyond good and evil and always deserves our respect and compassion even when it is doomed or destructive. In the wide middle of the spectrum are all the ambiguous and tragi-comic goings-on of our species.

Abuse, Ambiguous, Compassion, Deserves, Evil, Species

There's nothing a priori good about equality. One person has three televisions, the other has two, so what?

Nothing, Person, Priori, Television, Three, Two

About 70% of what I've written about is centered on the clashes and conformities between the emerging life and physical sciences and older metaphysical frameworks in the 17th and 18th centuries. The other 30% consists of one-off essays or researches into other intriguing contemporary topics such as visual experience, aesthetics, social justice issues, and the epistemology of moral knowledge.

Consists, Intriguing, Issues, Justice, Physical, Topics

The life-world of human and animal experience, with colours, tastes, solid objects, is a perceptual effect of massed atoms.

Animal, Atoms, Perceptual, Tastes, World

'Contract' succeeded 'status' as the basic organising principle in modern political vs. ancient society.

Ancient, Contract, Political, Principle, Principles

The higher the coefficient of inequality (Gini coefficient) in a society, the worse things tend to be for those at the bottom.

Bottom, Higher, Inequality, Society, Tend

Epicurus thought that friendship and conviviality, which require present attention rather than being in an alcoholic stupor, as well as trying to understand and explain things, were the greatest sources of satisfaction in life, so there go most drugs.

Alcoholic, Drug, Satisfaction In Life, Stupor, Things, Trying

Epicurus thought of justice as an agreement to prevent people harming and being harmed.

Agreement, Harmed, Justice, People, Prevent, Thought

There's Hobbes, who understood in the 1640s that the sovereign is not an appointee of God, or even a figure of superior virtue and wisdom, but just a functional device whose role is to keep people from hurting and killing each other.

Functional, Hurt, People, Roles, Understood, Wisdom

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