Quotes of Mary Midgley - somelinesforyou

“ The symbolism of meateating is never neutral. To himself, the meateater seems to be eating life. To the vegetarian, he seems to be eating death. There is a kind of gestaltshift between the two positions which makes it hard to change, and hard to raise questions on the matter at all without becoming embattled. ”

- Mary Midgley

“ What great philosophers do for us is not to hand out such an allpurpose system. It is to light up and clarify some special aspect of life, to supply conceptual tools which will do a certain necessary kind of work. Wide though that area of work may be, it is never the whole, and all ideas lose their proper power when they are used out of their appropriate context. That is why one great philosopher does not necessarily displace another, why there is room for all of them and a great many more whom we do not have yet. ”

- Mary Midgley
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