I have confronted theoretical positions whose protagonists claim that what I take to be historically produced characteristics of … - Alasdair MacIntyre

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The only way to kill militancy, to reduce it, is to provide opportunities to people who have no opportunities. I've always told my American friends that.

Alasdair MacIntyre

I have confronted theoretical positions whose protagonists claim that what I take to be historically produced characteristics of what is specifically modern are in fact the timelessly necessary characteristics of all and any moral judgment, of all and any selfhood.

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We are waiting not for a Godot but for another-doubtless very different-St. Benedict.

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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 revolutionaries who revive old doctrines, while their conservative and reactionary opponents are the inventors of new ones.

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

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