"Imprisoning philosophy within the professionalizations and specializations of……" — Alasdair MacIntyre
"Imprisoning philosophy within the professionalizations and specializations of an institutionalized curriculum, after the manner of our contemporary European and North American culture, is arguably a good deal more effective in neutralizing its effects than either religious censorship or political terror"
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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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At the foundation of moral thinking lie beliefs in statements the truth of which no further reason can be given.
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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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