“ Whenever those immersed in the bureaucratic culture of the age try to think their way through to the moral foundations of what they are and what they do, they will discover suppressed Nietzschean prem… Alasdair MacIntyre
“ To call the Form [of the Good] eternal is misleading: that something lasts forever does not render it any the better, any more than long-enduring whiteness is whiter than ephemeral whiteness. Alasdair MacIntyre
“ Plato in both the Gorgias and the Republic looked back to Socrates and asserted that "it is better to suffer tortures on the rack than to have a soul burdened with the guilt of doing evil." Aristotle… Alasdair MacIntyre
“ The introduction of the word ‘intuition’ by a moral philosopher is always a signal that something has gone badly wrong with an argument. Alasdair MacIntyre
“ The attempted professionalization of serious and systematic thinking has had a disastrous effect upon our culture Alasdair MacIntyre
“ I can be said truly to know who and what I am only because there are others who can be said truly to know who and what I am. Alasdair MacIntyre
“ At the foundation of moral thinking lie beliefs in statements the truth of which no further reason can be given. Alasdair MacIntyre
“ 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 t… Alasdair MacIntyre
“ History is neither a prison nor a museum, nor is it a set of materials for self-congratulation. Alasdair MacIntyre
“ 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 g… Alasdair MacIntyre
