Philosophy Quotes

"The loss of narrative unity in modern life produces a corresponding loss of moral unity."

"Modern philosophy rests upon an impossible confusion about human nature and freedom."

"Tradition is a sustained argument about goods and their place in human life."

"The contemporary rejection of teleology represents a profound loss in moral understanding."

"Modern man has been left without the resources to understand his own nature."

"The authority of a tradition comes not from force but from continuing recognition of its goods."

"Moral language in modern culture becomes increasingly incoherent and contested."

"The virtues are excellences which enable us to achieve the goods which are peculiarly human."

"The loss of belief in progress has left modern culture morally adrift."

"Traditions are the bearers of standards of excellence and the vehicles of human flourishing."

"The modern rejection of Aristotelian thought has left us without adequate moral concepts."

"The self is not something given prior to social and institutional contexts; it is constructed within them."

"Modern culture is characterized by the triumph of preference over truth."

"The decline of shared moral language reflects a deeper fragmentation in modern culture."

"To be a member of a tradition is to have access to the standards of excellence it embodies."

"Modern individualism has blinded us to the essentially social character of human virtue."

"The authority of tradition is not based on the past but on continuing practice and deliberation."

"To lose a tradition is to lose access to goods that can only be understood within it."

"Modern philosophy has inherited an incoherent set of assumptions about human nature."

"A culture which lacks shared moral concepts cannot sustain genuine deliberation."

"The concept of the good has become incomprehensible within modern moral frameworks."

"To be virtuous is to be shaped by the traditions and practices of one's community."

"Modern moral culture is characterized by the proliferation of competing and incommensurable goods."

"A tradition is alive insofar as it remains capable of generating debate and revision from within."

"The mind is not a passive receiver of impressions, but an active agent in constituting reality."

"Identity across possible worlds requires a criterion that transcends mere description."

"The modal realist accepts counterfactual truths as genuinely about alternate possibilities."

"Philosophical intuitions are data, not obstacles to overcome in theory-building."

"Absence of evidence is not evidence of absence in metaphysical inquiry."

"Identity across time requires neither continuity of matter nor continuity of form."