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“We should therefore expect that, if in a particular society the pursuit of external goods were to become dominant, the concept of the virtues might suffer first attrition and then perhaps something near total effacement, although simulacra might abound.”
― After Virtue: A Study in Moral Theory
― After Virtue: A Study in Moral Theory
“If nothing is self-evident, nothing can be proved. Similarly if nothing is obligatory for its own sake, nothing is obligatory at all.”
― The Abolition of Man
― The Abolition of Man
“Through failure to contemplate these Infinites, men have rashly rushed into the examination of nature, as though they bore some proportion to her.”
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“When a natural discourse paints a passion or an effect, one feels within oneself the truth of what one reads, which was there before, although one did not know it. Hence one is inclined to love him who makes us feel it, for he has not shown us his own riches, but ours. And thus this benefit renders him pleasing to us, besides that such community of intellect as we have with him necessarily inclines the heart to love.”
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“There are progressions in which the last step is sui generis —incommensurable with the others —and in which to go the whole way is to undo all the labour of your previous journey. To reduce the Tao to a mere natural product is a step of that kind. Up to that point, the kind of explanation which explains things away may give us something, though at a heavy cost. But you cannot go on explaining away' for ever: you will find that you have explained explanation itself away.”
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Michael’s 2025 Year in Books
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