Episode #247 ... The Failure of the Modern University - Alasdair MacIntyre

“Notice how easy it is for the doctor in this scenario to be a total expert when it comes to medicine, a technical skill, but be completely oblivious to the moral foundations that their shared practice of medicine is steeped in”

“an educated person should be able to see that the narrowest description of any action is almost never the whole truth when it comes to what that person is doing.”

“some of the biggest disasters that we've faced in this world have been caused by people with degrees from the best universities. He talks about things like the Vietnam War, American policy towards Iran over the years, the fixes that people come up with in real time during whatever financial crisis we're going through.”