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A history-of-ideas approach to the past presumes that beneath the multifarious events taking place in any age, influencing dominant personalities and shaping popular opinion, there are overarching ideas or ideologies that give meaning and ...more
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Alasdair MacIntyre
“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 explanations were offered to him. He then pointed out that it does not.”
Alasdair MacIntyre

Friedrich Schiller
“Live with your century, but do not be its creature.”
Friedrich Schiller

“Philosophers are in the habit of indicating the object of judgement by the letter p. There is an insouciance with respect to this fateful letter. It stands ready quietly, unobstrusively, to assure us that we know what we are talking about. For example, when we do epistemology, we are interested in what it is for someone to know - know what? oh yes: p. If we inquire into rational requirements on action or intention, we ask what it is to be obliged to - what? oh yes: see to it that p, intend that, if p, then q, and so on. However, if we udnertake to reflect on thought, on its self-consciousness and its objectivity, then the letter p signifies the deepest question and the deepest comprehension. If only we understood the letter p, the whole world would be open to us.”
Sebastian Rödl, Self-Consciousness and Objectivity: An Introduction to Absolute Idealism

Alasdair MacIntyre
“Imprisoning philosophy within the professionalizations and specializations of an institutionalized curriculum, after the manner of our contemporary European and North American culture, is arguably a good deal more effective in neutralizing its effects than either religious censorship or political terror”
Alasdair C. MacIntyre, Edith Stein: A Philosophical Prologue, 1913-1922

Terry Eagleton
“The New Testament is a brutal destroyer of human illusions. If you follow Jesus and don't end up dead, it appears you have some explaining to do. The stark signifier of the human condition is one who spoke up for love and justice and was done to death for his pains. The traumatic truth of human history is a mutilated body.”
Terry Eagleton, Reason, Faith, and Revolution: Reflections on the God Debate

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