Alan Ryan Quotes

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It is never right to injure anyone. It can never be right to make someone worse than he is.

On Politics: A History of Political Thought from Herodotus to the Present

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He had gone again and, emboldened by his first successful trip, had chosen a different sort of world...

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A colleague once described political theorists as people who were obsessed with two dozen books; aft...

On Politics: A New History of Political Philosophy

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Alan Ryan

Born: 1940-05-09

Died: N/A

Alan James Ryan FBA (born 9 May 1940) is a British philosopher. He was Professor of Politics at the University of Oxford. He was also Warden of New College, Oxford from 1996 to 2009. He retired as Professor Emeritus in September 2015 and lives in Summertown, Oxford.More