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The iconic end of Alasdair MacIntyre's most famous book, After Virtue: "It is always dangerous to draw too precise parallels between one historical period and another; and among the most misleading of such parallels are those which have been drawn between our own age in Europe and North America and the epoch in which the …
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Bertrand Russell on how to be a philosopher: It is important to learn not to be angry with opinions different from your own, but to set to work understanding how they come about. If, after you have understood them, they still seem false, you can then combat them much more effectually than if you had …
Strangely, this quote is my blog’s most popular post: J.R.R. Tolkien on anarchism
There are some qualities of Anthony Bourdain’s life and lifestyle you may not like. He was a great chef, a television “personality,” a crusader, a mentor. He was also a keen student of what it is to be human. He took his own life one year ago, on 8 June 2018. This quote, shared by …
“Most of all, perhaps, we need intimate knowledge of the past. Not that the past has any magic about it, but because we cannot study the future, and yet need something to set against the present, to remind us that the basic assumptions have been quite different in different periods and that much which seems …
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