Alasdair MacIntyre, The 1984 Lindley Lecture at the University of Kansas. excerpted to 1787 words. One of the central tasks of the moral philosopher is to articulate the convictions of the society in which he or she lives so that these convictions may become available for rational scrutiny. This task
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These kids have learned some history and they know what warfare used to be: tanks and guns and soldiers that moved across the land— with strategies and battlelines converging at a place in time; and lives were lost for reasons that the world could understand On the History Channel, war
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