Men are admittedly social beings, language-using beings, tool-using beings, and so on. However, any serious philosophical anthropology has to recogni… - R. W. K. Paterson

They are supposed to be mature, and it is on this necessary supposition that their adulthood justifiably rests.

The version of reality [of the plebeian] is odiously wrong, because it reeks of disbelief in anything which cannot be construed as intrinsically base or shabby. … Even if Gordon had been all that legend has made him, the only effect this would have would be to make his critic less bland and more venomous in his unshakeable hostility.

When we entrust the domain of values to those whose intellectual concerns are essentially centred on empirical facts, and whose conceptual frameworks are inevitably constructed around sets of empirical facts, we need not be surprised if the result is moral confusion.