Those emotive theorists who said that the function of moral utterance was to evince emotion would. . . … - Alasdair MacIntyre

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It's hard to be driven when you're being driven.

Alasdair MacIntyre

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.

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The hypothesis I wish to advance is thatthe language of morality is ingrave disorder. . . . What we possess, if this is true, are the fragments of a conceptual scheme, parts of which now lack those contexts from which their significance derived. We possess indeed simulacra of morality, we continue to use many of the key expressions. But we have--very largely if not entirely--lost our comprehension, both theoretical and practical, of morality.

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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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