Alasdair MacIntyre, one of the world’s great twentieth-century philosophers, died on Wednesday. He is best known for reintroducing virtue ethics as a viable alternative to consequentialism. He also saw his faith and his philosophy as mutually enriching. Reading the obituaries, I was reminded of this quotation from one of MacIntyre’s twenty books: Man is in …
The iconic end of Alasdair MacIntyre’s most famous book
The iconic end of Alasdair MacIntyre's most famous book, After Virtue: "It is always dangerous to draw too precise parallels between one historical period and another; and among the most misleading of such parallels are those which have been drawn between our own age in Europe and North America and the epoch in which the …
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