Michael Roth

“Indeed, one of the functions of the structures of normality is that by making it unnecessary for almost everybody almost all the time to provide justifications for what they are doing or are about to do, they relieve us of what would otherwise be an intolerable burden.”
― Alasdair MacIntyre, Whose Justice? Which Rationality?

“Facts, like telescopes and wigs for gentlemen, were a seventeenth-century invention.”
― Alasdair MacIntyre, Whose Justice? Which Rationality?

“It is only by participation in a rational, practice-based community that one becomes rational.”
― Alasdair MacIntyre, Whose Justice? Which Rationality?

“Everyone has some kind of philosophy, some general worldview, which to men of other views will seem mythological.”
― H. Richard Niebuhr, Christ and Culture: 50th Anniversary Edition―Being True to Christ in a Materialistic Age