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Alasdair MacIntyre Quotes

The attempted professionalization of serious and systematic thinking has had a disastrous effect upon our culture Picture Quote #1

Charles II once invited the members of the Royal Society to explain to him why a dead fish weighs more than the same fish alive; a number of subtle explanations were offered to him. He then pointed out that it does not Picture Quote #1

Imprisoning philosophy within the professionalizations and specializations of an institutionalized curriculum, after the manner of our contemporary European and North American culture, is arguably a good deal more effective in neutralizing its effects than either religious censorship or political terror Picture Quote #1

Of what story or stories do I find myself a part? Picture Quote #1

Christians have given atheists less and less in which to disbelieve Picture Quote #1

A striking feature of moral and political argument in the modern world is the extent to which it is innovators, radicals, and revolutionaries who revive old doctrines, while their conservative and reactionary opponents are the inventors of new ones Picture Quote #1

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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 indefinite for the definite article Picture Quote #1

At the foundation of moral thinking lie beliefs in statements the truth of which no further reason can be given Picture Quote #1

It is through hearing stories about wicked stepmothers, lost children, good but misguided kings, wolves that suckle twin boys, youngest sons who receive no inheritance but must make their own way in the world, and eldest sons who waste their inheritance on riotous living and go into exile to live with the swine, that children learn or mislearn both what a child and what a parent is, what the cast of characters may be in the drama into which they have been born and what the ways of the world are Picture Quote #1

Modern systematic politics, whether liberal, conservative, radical, or socialist, simply has to be rejected from a standpoint that owes genuine allegiance to the tradition of the virtues; for modern politics itself expresses in its institutional forms a systematic rejection of that tradition Picture Quote #1

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The attempted professionalization of serious and systematic thinking has had a disastrous effect upon our culture (Alasdair MacIntyre Quotes) Charles II once invited the members of the Royal Society to explain to him why a dead fish weighs more than the same fish alive; a number of subtle explanations were offered to him. He then pointed out that it does not (Alasdair MacIntyre Quotes) Imprisoning philosophy within the professionalizations and specializations of an institutionalized curriculum, after the manner of our contemporary European and North American culture, is arguably a good deal more effective in neutralizing its effects than either religious censorship or political terror (Alasdair MacIntyre Quotes) Of what story or stories do I find myself a part? (Alasdair MacIntyre Quotes) Christians have given atheists less and less in which to disbelieve (Alasdair MacIntyre Quotes) A striking feature of moral and political argument in the modern world is the extent to which it is innovators, radicals, and revolutionaries who revive old doctrines, while their conservative and reactionary opponents are the inventors of new ones (Alasdair MacIntyre Quotes) Those emotive theorists who said that the function of moral utterance was to evince emotion would... have been correct if they had substituted the indefinite for the definite article (Alasdair MacIntyre Quotes) At the foundation of moral thinking lie beliefs in statements the truth of which no further reason can be given (Alasdair MacIntyre Quotes) It is through hearing stories about wicked stepmothers, lost children, good but misguided kings, wolves that suckle twin boys, youngest sons who receive no inheritance but must make their own way in the world, and eldest sons who waste their inheritance on riotous living and go into exile to live with the swine, that children learn or mislearn both what a child and what a parent is, what the cast of characters may be in the drama into which they have been born and what the ways of the world are (Alasdair MacIntyre Quotes) Modern systematic politics, whether liberal, conservative, radical, or socialist, simply has to be rejected from a standpoint that owes genuine allegiance to the tradition of the virtues; for modern politics itself expresses in its institutional forms a systematic rejection of that tradition (Alasdair MacIntyre Quotes)