Alasdair MacIntyre Quotes on Politics
Alasdair Chalmers MacIntyre was a Scottish-American moral and political philosopher and one of the principal architects of the late twentieth-century revival of virtue ethics. This page collects quotes attributed to Alasdair MacIntyre on the topic of politics, drawn from across the philosopher's works.
Quotes
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Attributed to Alasdair MacIntyre:
“A living tradition is an historically extended, socially embodied argument.”
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Attributed to Alasdair MacIntyre:
“The barbarians are not waiting beyond the frontiers; they have already been governing us for some time.”
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“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”
Edith Stein: A Philosophical Prologue , 1913-1922 (ed. 2007) -
“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.”
A Short History of Ethics