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From a little way off, the moral history of a human value is easy to write and generally follows one of two hearteningly simple narratives. The first one goes down. It selects a fine old value from the past and, commending it to the present, describes its painful decline to its present degradation.
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Alasdair Maclntyre’s point in his classic introduction, on which this paper greatly relies, to his A Short History of Ethics (London: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1967), pp. 1–4.
Philip Larkin, Collected Poems (London: Faber & Faber, 1989), p. 167.
Bernard Williams’s idea; see the title essay in his Moral Luck (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1980).
The startling figure is given in the authorised biography by Barbara Stoney, Enid Blyton (London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1974).
See Machiavelli’s Discourses on Livy, B. Crick, ed. (Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1968), pp. 221–30.
Much in what follows is taken from Charles Taylor, Sources of the Self, (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1989)
In Richard Rorty, Contingency, Irony, Solidarity (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1989), p. 141
In Michael Howard, The Causes of Wars, (London: George Allen & Unwin, 1984).
A distinction made by Paul Ricoeur, in his Hermeneutics and the Human Sciences (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1981)
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Inglis, F. (1992). Social Class and Educational Adventures: Jan Needle and the Biography of a Value. In: Butts, D. (eds) Stories and Society. Insights. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-22111-0_6
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