Wilfred Cantwell Smith on the ideal of Faith
‘Yet I have insisted that an analysis is lopsided and faulty it if serves only the observer, not the participant. …
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Bernard Williams on Reflectiveness
‘There is no route back from reflectiveness. This phenomenon of self-consciousness, together with the institutions and processes that support it, …
MacIntyre on Progress in Rationality
‘Aristotle’s achievement then is wrongly understood if it is supposed that he offered us an account of justice and of …
MacIntyre on Practical Reason and the Structures of Normality
‘All practical reasoning arises from someone’s asking the question “What am I to do?” The asking of that question itself …
Kenny on Descartes’ Originality and Medieval Philosophy
It is true that Descartes initiated a new, individualistic, style of philosophising. Medieval philosophers had seen themselves as principally engaged …
