Alasdair MacIntyre Quotes

There Is No Chain Of Philosophical Reasoning Or Method Of Philosophical Enquiry Through Which We Can Arrive At The Truths Of Faith As Conclusions. But Once By Faith We Have Acknowledged Those Truths We Are Able To Understand Why There Is Good Reason To Acknowledge Them. This, As He Was To Argue A Little Later, Is Because Of The Effects Of Sin On The Human Mind. It Is "because Human Minds Are Obscured By Familiarity With Darkness, Which Covers Them In A Night Of Sins And Bad Habits, And Are Unable To Perceive With The Clarity And Purity Proper To Reason" That Authority Has Been Provided To Bring "the Faltering Eye Into The Light Of Truth" (De Moribus Ecclesiae Catholicae 31.2.31).

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