A striking feature of moral and political argument in the modern world is the extent to which it … - Alasdair MacIntyre

Same topic Authors

Quote of the day

During every really creative act, the artist finds himself homeless. To overcome this state he has to call up his last reserves of strength.

Alasdair MacIntyre

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.

Conservative, Doctrine, Doctrines, Ones, Political, World

Same Author Quotes

Modern politics is civil war carried on by other means.

Carried, Mean, Politics, War

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.

Fact, Facts, Judgment, Moral

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.

Advance, Expression, Keys, Parts, Significance, Wish

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

Benedict, Different, Godot, Waiting

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

Culture, Professionalization, Serious, Systematic, Thinking

Similar Quotes

Don Young

I wrote my thesis on the benefits of war and very near got thrown out of college. But I can show you where the greatest advancement of mankind comes under stress and strain, not comfort.

College, Strain, Stress, Thesis, War

Dan Devine

I'm going to be the next head coach at Notre Dame.

Coach, Dame, Dames, Next, Notre, Notre Dame Football

W. Eugene Smith

You can't photograph if you're not in love.

Ifs, Love, Photograph

Michael Kosser

Here's some free advice; like the folkies of yore, you need to be not just a writer of songs, you need to be a lover of songs, a listener of songs and a collector of songs. If you hear a song in a club that knocks you out or you hear an old recording of a great song you never knew existed, it does not diminish you to record it; it actually exalts you because you have brought a great song from obscurity to the ear of the public.

Advice, Collector, Diminish, Old, Song, Writing

Asger Jorn