Wilson claims that Wolf (and Thomas Nagel, whom she claims holds a similar position)
write from the perspective of
a. strict utilitarian principles and calculations.
b. contemporary intellectual thought, dominated by Freudian, Darwinian, relativistic,
secular, and cosmopolitan beliefs and theories.
c. choice, plenty, and leisure that is characteristic of affluent persons living in Western
industrialized countries.
d. traditional virtue theory, as developed in early medieval philosophy.
e. Kantian ethics.
c
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