The hypothesis I wish to advance is that ... the language of morality is in ... grave disorder.... What we possess, if this is tru...e, are the fragments of a conceptual scheme, parts of which now lack those contexts from which their significance derived. We possess indeed simulacra of morality, we continue to use many of the key expressions. But we have--very largely if not entirely--lost our comprehension, both theoretical and practical, of morality.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
A striking feature of moral and political argument in the modern world is the extent to which it is innovators, radicals, and revo...lutionaries who revive old doctrines, while their conservative and reactionary opponents are the inventors of new ones.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »