Mark Kingwell: First

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“Socrates was likewise right that pissing people off is how we first, and maybe best, go about the business of provoking thought.”

Source: The World We Want (2000), Chapter 4, Spaces And Dreams, p. 159.

“But what I mean is not as odd as it might sound - and is by no means intended as the last word on the subject, only the first.”

Source: The World We Want (2000), Chapter 2, Rights And Duties, p. 68

“I hold to the idea that civility, understood as the willingness to engage in public discourse, is the first virtue of citizens.”

Preface, p. viii.
The World We Want (2000)