Modern systematic politics, whether liberal, conservative, radical, or socialist, simply has to be rejected from a standpoint that … - Alasdair MacIntyre

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Alasdair MacIntyre

Modern systematic politics, whether liberal, conservative, radical, or socialist, simply has to be rejected from a standpoint that owes genuine allegiance to the tradition of the virtues; for modern politics itself expresses in its institutional forms a systematic rejection of that tradition

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