On contrition and compassion

Alasdair MacIntyre, one of the worldโ€™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 MacIntyreโ€™s twenty books: Man is in …