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“What this brings out is that modern politics cannot be a matter of genuine moral consensus. And it is not. Modern politics is civil war carried on by other means.” quote by Alasdair MacIntyre — Download Open image

“What this brings out is that modern politics cannot be a matter of genuine moral consensus. And it is not. Modern politics is civil war carried on by other means.”

Alasdair MacIntyre

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The bureaucratic manager, the consuming aesthete, the therapist, the protester and their numerous kindred occupy almost all the available culturally recognizable roles, the notions of the expertise of the few and of the moral agency of everyone are the presuppositions of the dramas which those characters enact. To cry out that the emperor had no clothes on was at least…

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Modern politics is civil war carried on by other means.

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“the characterization of actions allegedly prior to any narrative form being imposed upon them will always turn out to be the presentation of what…

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“Indeed, one of the functions of the structures of normality is that by making it unnecessary for almost everybody almost all the time to…

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Facts, like telescopes and wigs for gentlemen, were a seventeenth century invention.

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The good life for man is the life spent in seeking for the good life for man, and the virtues necessary for the seeking…

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Those emotive theorists who said that the function of moral utterance was to evince emotion would... have been correct if they had substituted the…

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Charles II once invited the members of the Royal Society to explain to him why a dead fish weighs more than the same fish…

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Morality which is no particular socity's morality is to be found nowhere.

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“The true genre of the life is neither hagiography nor saga, but tragedy.”

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What our laws show is the extent and degree to which conflict has to be suppressed.

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Modern systematic politics, whether liberal, conservative, radical, or socialist, simply has to be rejected from a standpoint that owes genuine allegiance to the tradition…

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