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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…
• Charles II once invited the members of the Royal Society to explain to him why a dead fish weighs more than the…
• Imprisoning philosophy within the professionalizations and specializations of an institutionalized curriculum, after the manner of our contemporary European and North American culture,…
• At the foundation of moral thinking lie beliefs in statements the truth of which no further reason can be given.
• It is through hearing stories about wicked stepmothers, lost children, good but misguided kings, wolves that suckle twin boys, youngest sons who…
• I can only answer the question ‘What am I to do?’ if I can answer the prior question ‘Of what story or…
• The attempted professionalization of serious and systematic thinking has had a disastrous effect upon our culture
• A striking feature of moral and political argument in the modern world is the extent to which it is innovators, radicals, and…
• Of what story or stories do I find myself a part?
• Modern systematic politics, whether liberal, conservative, radical, or socialist, simply has to be rejected from a standpoint that owes genuine allegiance to…
• We are waiting not for a Godot but for another-doubtless very different-St. Benedict,
• 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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