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notes to pages 391–400 54715. Benedict, Chrysanthemum, 1946,p.197.16. Peterson and Seligman, Character Strengths and Virtues, 2004,p.50.17. Reddy,Navigation of Feeling, 2001, for example, p. 20.18. Rorty, “Postmodernist Bourgeois Liberalism,” 1985,p.214.19. Rorty, “Postmodernist Bourgeois Liberalism,” 1985, p.215. Rorty was here classifying“prudence” as amoral selfishness. I would not, and it matters for my disagreements with Rortyabout economics (we agree about most other things) that I would not.chapter 37: needing virtues1. Knight, “Ethics of Competition,” 1923,p.62.2. Polanyi, Logic of Liberty, 1951,p.106.3. From chap. 7, proposition 3 of the Internet text of Hobbes’s early Elements of Law, whichRichard Tuck (“Hobbes,” 1987, through whom the quotation was found) notes “contains theessentials of all his later political thought” (p. 210). www.knuten.liu.se/~bjoch509/works/hobbes/elements.txt.4. Holmes, letter to Lady Pollock, Sept. 6, 1902, Holmes-Pollock Letters, 1941, vol. 1,p.105.5. Holmes, Address . . . at the Dedication of the Northwestern University Law School Building,quoted in Alschuler, Law without Values, 2000,p.24.6. Holmes, Holmes-Laski Letters, Dec.3, 1917, quoted in Luban, “Justice Holmes,” 1992,p. 244.7. Holmes, Holmes-Pollock Letters, 1941, vol. 2,p.36 (Feb. 1, 1920).8. Holmes, “Natural Law” (1918), quoted in Alschuler, Law without Values, 2000,p.192.9. Masson, Final Analysis, 1990,pp.39–40.10. Booth, Modern Dogma, 1974,p.13.11. Booth, Modern Dogma, 1974, p. xi and chap. 2.12. Santayana, Persons and Places, 1943–1953,p.441.13. Orwell, “Dickens,” 1940,p.184.14. Blaug, Methodology of Economics, 1980,pp.132–133.15. Robbins, Nature and Significance, 1932, p.134. Sen says that such a view was “quiteunfashionable then” (Sen, Ethics and Economics, 1987). Not, I think, among the reigningfashionistas of 1932.16. Russell, Education and the Social Order, quoted in James F. Perry, “The Dream Hypothesis,Transitions, and the Very Idea of Humanity,” at http://www.bu.edu/wcp/Papers/Teac/TeacPerr.htm.17. MacIntyre,After Virtue, 1981,p.11, his italics.18. Hobbes, Leviathan, 1651, vol. 1, chap. 15,p.82; and vol. 1, chap. 6,p.24.19. Thucydides, Peloponnesian War,c.404 BC, 5.89–111.20. Rachels, Elements, 1999,p.79.21. Hariman, Political Style, 1995,pp.29, 33.22. Hariman, “Theory without Modernity,” 2003,p.27, note 15, quoting his own 1995 PoliticalStyle.23. Maus, “Introduction to Richard II,” 1997,p.948.24. Yuengert, Boundaries, 2004,p.120.