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….

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

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

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….

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

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

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….

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

Modern politics is civil war carried on by other means..

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

The way to bring out the best in the British people is to attack them..

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….

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

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 ….

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?’.

Of what story or stories do I find myself a part?.

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