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Virtues are dispositions not only to act in particular ways, but also to feel in particular ways. To act virtuously is not, as Kant was later to think, to act against inclination; it is to act from inclination formed by the cultivation of the virtues.

— Alasdair MacIntyre After Virtue (2007)

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But clearly if we possess such a standard, the commandments of God will be redundant.

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At the foundation of moral thinking lie beliefs in statements for the truth of which no further reason can be given.

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This time, however, the barbarians are not waiting beyond the frontiers; they have already been among us for quite some time.

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We are waiting not for Godot, but for another—doubtless very different—St. Benedict.

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So for Kant one can be both good and stupid; but for Aristotle stupidity of a certain kind precludes goodness.

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