Modern systematic politics, whether liberal, conservative, radical, or socialist, simply has to be rejected from a standpoint that owes genuine alleg….

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….

[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….

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

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….

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….

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

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 ….

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?’.

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

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 ….

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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….

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….