Past present Quote by Alasdair MacIntyre

“Apparently, we have become such a hyper-individualized culture that it is impossible to develop an argument based on how individual cases fit into the…

— David Brooks

“Moral education, which ought never, in any circumstances, to be rational.”

— Aldous Huxley

“In any case fashions of one generation, moral or physical, are scarcely at all assessable in terms of another. They cannot be properly equated.”

— Anthony Powell

“There is an intimate connection between our moral life and our intellectual life. Sometimes I think the history of our times can be described…

— James V. Schall

“Rational truth—and all truth is rational—is essentially that which can justify itself under criticism and in discussion.”

— R. G. Collingwood

“You can’t rationally argue out what wasn’t rationally argued in.”

— George Bernard Shaw

Most argument, and in fact most conflict, has nothing to do with the present. It's always about the past or the future. People can't…

— Steven Galloway

“We may disagree with the morality of a law, but we cannot deny the moral concern of a law.”

— R.J. Rushdoony

There has been a controversy started of late, much better worth examination, concerning the general foundation of Morals; whether they be derived from Reason,…

— David Hume

“The moral is that the shape of a society must depend on the ethical nature of the individual and not on any political system…

— William Golding

“Sometimes complex and difficult moral choices are decided less by reason and by right than by sentiment.”

— Dean Koontz

a problem that presents itself as a dilemma carries an unfortunate prescription: to argue instead of act.

— Elizabeth Janeway