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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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We are waiting not for a Godot but for another-doubtless very different-St. Benedict,
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Samuel Beckett's 'Waiting for Godot,' billed as 'the laugh sensation of two continents,' made its American debut at the Coconut Grove Playhouse,…
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I played Lucky in Waiting for Godot at Yale and it was a thing that Stanislavski talks about: he says you don't…
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I saw Waiting for Godot when I was 17 in rep with a then unknown actor called Peter O'Toole playing Vladimir. I…
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