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Alasdair MacIntyre has 18 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
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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…
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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…
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Imprisoning philosophy within the professionalizations and specializations of an institutionalized curriculum, after the manner of our contemporary European and North American culture,…
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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 sons who…
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I can only answer the question ‘What am I to do?’ if I can answer the prior question ‘Of what story or…
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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, radicals, and…
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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 allegiance to…
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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 there were…
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One may well find oneself beginning to doubt whether all this could conceivably be the product of an enormous lottery presided over…
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I sometimes wonder if the inability to find oneself makes one seek oneself in other people, in characters.
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No matter what kind of difficult situation one may find oneself in, some opening, some opportunity to fight one's way out, can…
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It is a solemn thing to find oneself drawn out in prayer which knows no relief till the soul it is burdened…
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Hard to believe that so nearby, just across the Channel, such atrocities could still occur in their supposedly civilized world, that one…
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To think at its best is to find oneself carried down the current of necessity.
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If you can sit at set of sun And count the deeds that you have done And counting find oneself-denying act, one…
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To find oneself living in an age of doubt is not such a curse. There is a kind of reverence in undertaking…
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Individuals inherit a particular space within an interlocking set of social relationships; lacking that space, they are nobody, or at best a…
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