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“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
“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 other means, and Bakke was an engagement whose antecedents were at Gettysburg and Shiloh.”
― After Virtue: A Study in Moral Theory
― After Virtue: A Study in Moral Theory
“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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“Action, and not knowledge, is man's destiny and duty in this life; and his highest principles, both in philosophy and in religion, have reference to this end.”
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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
Michael’s 2025 Year in Books
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