"At the foundation of moral thinking lie beliefs……" — Alasdair MacIntyre
"At the foundation of moral thinking lie beliefs in statements the truth of which no further reason can be given."
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Alasdair MacIntyre
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18 Quotes by Alasdair MacIntyre
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Those emotive theorists who said that the function of moral utterance was to evince emotion would... have been correct if…
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Charles II once invited the members of the Royal Society to explain to him why a dead fish weighs more…
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Imprisoning philosophy within the professionalizations and specializations of an institutionalized curriculum, after the manner of our contemporary European and North…
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It is through hearing stories about wicked stepmothers, lost children, good but misguided kings, wolves that suckle twin boys, youngest…
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I can only answer the question ‘What am I to do?’ if I can answer the prior question ‘Of what…
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The attempted professionalization of serious and systematic thinking has had a disastrous effect upon our culture
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A striking feature of moral and political argument in the modern world is the extent to which it is innovators,…
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Of what story or stories do I find myself a part?
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Modern systematic politics, whether liberal, conservative, radical, or socialist, simply has to be rejected from a standpoint that owes genuine…
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We are waiting not for a Godot but for another-doubtless very different-St. Benedict,
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There ought not be two histories, one of political and moral action and one of political and moral theorizing, because…
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The way to bring out the best in the British people is to attack them.
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More Belief Quotes
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Strong beliefs win strong men, and then make them stronger.
— Richard Bach
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And above all things, never think that you're not good enough yourself. A man should never think that. My belief…
— Isaac Asimov
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Another belief of mine; that everyone else my age is an adult, whereas I am merely in disguise.
— Margaret Atwood
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I'm a strict, strict agnostic. It's very different from a casual, 'I don't know.' It's that you cannot present as…
— Margaret Atwood
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No poet or novelist wishes he were the only one who ever lived, but most of them wish they were…
— Wystan Hugh Auden
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All works of art are commissioned in the sense that no artist can create one by a simple act of…
— Wystan Hugh Auden
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If you believe what you like in the gospels, and reject what you don't like, it is not the gospel…
— Saint Augustine
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Seek not to understand that you may believe, but believe that you may understand.
— Saint Augustine
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It is not death that a man should fear, but he should fear never beginning to live.
— Marcus Aurelius
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It will, I believe, be everywhere found, that as the clergy are, or are not what they ought to be,…
— Jane Austen
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Don't believe what your eyes are telling you. All they show is limitation. Look with your understanding, find out what…
— Richard Bach
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The mark of your ignorance is the depth of your belief in injustice and tragedy. What the caterpillar calls the…
— Richard Bach
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