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Columns at the eastern end of the abbey church looking into the south transept, Tintern Abbey, Monmouthshire, UK

MacIntyre diagnosed modern moral incoherence correctly. He misidentified the cause as philosophical rather than material and his remedy thus fails.

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I am a dutch white guy from a lower middle class family, among the first in my extended family to go to uni, who was strongly encouraged to embrace petit-bou...

 BLM Nevada Field Office personnel, 1962 - Nevada Historical Society Museum and Reno Chamber of Commerce (celebrating 50 years with the Bureau of Land Management)
Bureaucracy,  Education,  Careerism,  Text

For decades, we've been hearing how everyone should 'take responsibility for their actions,' and that we are each responsible for our 'success' (or lack ther...