 | Wesley Cragg - Law - 1992 - 178 pages
...Commentary: The Myth of Retributive Justice BRIAN SLATTERY Osgoode Hall Law School, York University Deprive children of stories and you leave them unscripted,...stutterers in their actions as in their words.... Mythology, in its original sense, is at the heart of things. Alasdair Maclntyre I In a classic fairy... | |
 | Karl Kroeber - Art - 1992 - 282 pages
...identity meaningful enough to permit a viable system of social morality is a creation of storytelling: "Deprive children of stories and you leave them unscripted,...anxious stutterers in their actions as in their words. Hence there is no way to give us an understanding of any society, including our own, except through... | |
 | Jackson W. Carroll, Wade Clark Roof - Religion - 1993 - 372 pages
...to do?' if I can answer the prior question 'Of what stories do I find myself a part.'" He continues: "Deprive children of stories and you leave them unscripted,...anxious stutterers in their actions as in their words." That, we believe, is equally true for denominations and their congregations. Mainline Protestant traditions,... | |
 | Brice R. Wachterhauser - Philosophy - 1994 - 267 pages
...be unable to either think about our actions or act. "Deprive children of their stories," he writes, "and you leave them unscripted, anxious stutterers in their actions as in their words."12 But what are these dramatic resources and narrative terms? Maclntyre refers to stories about... | |
 | Robert K. Fullinwider - Education - 1996 - 302 pages
...of characters may be in the drama into which they have been born and what the ways of the world are. Deprive children of stories and you leave them unscripted, anxious stutterers in their actions as in their words.23 Again, it is important to see that Maclntyre's roles are performed by heterogeneous characters... | |
 | George Sher - Philosophy - 1997 - 276 pages
...to live with the swine, that children learn or mislearn both what a child and what a parent is. ... Deprive children of stories and you leave them unscripted,...anxious stutterers in their actions as in their words" (Maclntyre, After Virtue zd ed. [Notre Dame, Ind.: University of Notre Dame Press, 1984], p. 216).... | |
 | George Sher - Philosophy - 1997 - 276 pages
...to live with the swine, that children learn or mislear n both what a child and what a parent is. ... Deprive children of stories and you leave them unscripted,...anxious stutterers in their actions as in their words" (Maclntyre, After Virtue zd ed. [Notre Dame, Ind.: University of Notre Dame Press, 1984], p. 216).... | |
 | Alex Molnar - Education - 1997 - 216 pages
...of characters may be in the drama into which they have been born and what the ways of the world are. Deprive children of stories and you leave them unscripted,...anxious stutterers in their actions as in their words. Hence, there is no way to give us an understanding of any society, including our own, except through... | |
 | Larry Cochran - Business & Economics - 1997 - 184 pages
...cast of characters may be in the drama into which they have been born and what ways of the world are. Deprive children of stories and you leave them unscripted,...anxious stutterers in their actions as in their words. Hence there is no way to give us an understanding of any society, including our own, except through... | |
 | Ulrike Popp-Baier - Evangelicalism - 1998 - 344 pages
...of characters may be in the drama into which they have been bom and what the ways of the world are. Deprive children of stories and you leave them unscripted,...anxious stutterers in their actions as in their words. Hence there is no way to give us an understanding of any society, including our own, except through... | |
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Hence there is no way to give us an understanding of any society, including our own, except through the stock of stories which constitute its initial dramatic resources. 
