To call the Form [of the Good] eternal is misleading: that something lasts forever does not render it any the better, an — Alasdair MacIntyre, A Short History Of Ethics: A History Of Moral Philosophy From The Homeric Age To The Twentieth Century
To call the Form [of the Good] eternal is misleading: that something lasts forever does not render it any the better, an — Alasdair MacIntyre, A Short History Of Ethics: A History Of Moral Philosophy From The Homeric Age To The Twentieth Century
To call the Form [of the Good] eternal is misleading: that something lasts forever does not render it any the better, an — Alasdair MacIntyre, A Short History Of Ethics: A History Of Moral Philosophy From The Homeric Age To The Twentieth Century
To call the Form [of the Good] eternal is misleading: that something lasts forever does not render it any the better, an — Alasdair MacIntyre, A Short History Of Ethics: A History Of Moral Philosophy From The Homeric Age To The Twentieth Century
To call the Form [of the Good] eternal is misleading: that something lasts forever does not render it any the better, an — Alasdair MacIntyre, A Short History Of Ethics: A History Of Moral Philosophy From The Homeric Age To The Twentieth Century
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To call the Form [of the Good] eternal is misleading: that something lasts forever does not render it any the better, any more than long-enduring whiteness is whiter than ephemeral whiteness.

— Alasdair MacIntyre, A Short History Of Ethics: A History Of Moral Philosophy From The Homeric Age To The Twentieth Century
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