What this brings out is that modern politics cannot be a matter of genuine moral consensus. And it is not. Modern politics is civil war carried on by….

A crucial turning point in that earlier history occurred when men and women of good will turned aside from the task of shoring up the Roman imperium ….

It is through hearing stories about wicked stepmothers, lost children, good but misguided kings, wolves that suckle twin boys, youngest sons who rece….

What matters at this stage is the construction of local forms of community within which civility and the intellectual and moral life can be sustained….

[M]odern society is indeed often, at least in surface appearance, nothing but a collection of strangers, each pursuing his or her own interests under….

The good life for man is the life spent in seeking for the good life for man, and the virtues necessary for the seeking are those which will enable u….

Christians have given atheists less and less in which to disbelieve.

Facts, like telescopes and wigs for gentlemen, were a seventeenth century invention..

At the foundation of moral thinking lie beliefs in statements the truth of which no further reason can be given..

Truth has been displaced as a value and replaced by psychological effectiveness..

Morality which is no particular socity's morality is to be found nowhere..

Individuals inherit a particular space within an interlocking set of social relationships; lacking that space, they are nobody, or at best a stranger….

A striking feature of moral and political argument in the modern world is the extent to which it is innovators, radicals, and revolutionaries who rev….

It is only by participation in a rational, practice-based community that one becomes rational..

Virtues are dispositions not only to act in particular ways, but also to feel in particular ways. To act virtuously is not, as Kant was later to thin….

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

Imprisoning philosophy within the professionalizations and specializations of an institutionalized curriculum, after the manner of our contemporary E….

I can only answer the question ‘What am I to do?’ if I can answer the prior question ‘Of what story or stories do I find myself a part?’.

Charles II once invited the members of the Royal Society to explain to him why a dead fish weighs more than the same fish alive; a number of subtle e….

There ought not be two histories, one of political and moral action and one of political and moral theorizing, because there were not two pasts, one ….

The bureaucratic manager, the consuming aesthete, the therapist, the protester and their numerous kindred occupy almost all the available culturally ….