I can only answer the question โWhat am I to do?โ if I can answer the prior question โOf what story or stories do I find myself a part?โ
Alasdair MacIntyreIndividuals inherit a particular space within an interlocking set of social relationships; lacking that space, they are nobody, or at best a stranger or an outcast. To know oneself as such a social person is however not to occupy a static and fixed position. It is to find oneself placed at a certain point on a journey with set goals; to move through life is to make progress - or to fail to make progress - toward a given end.
Alasdair MacIntyre[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 minimal constraints.
Alasdair MacIntyreWhat our laws show is the extent and degree to which conflict has to be suppressed.
Alasdair MacIntyreThe attempted professionalization of serious and systematic thinking has had a disastrous effect upon our culture
Alasdair MacIntyreIt is through hearing stories about wicked stepmothers, lost children, good but misguided kings, wolves that suckle twin boys, youngest sons who receive no inheritance but must make their own way in the world, and eldest sons who waste their inheritance on riotous living and go into exile to live with the swine, that children learn or mislearn both what a child and what a parent is, what the cast of characters may be in the drama into which they have been born and what the ways of the world are.
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