“Moral judgments are linguistic survivals from the practices of classical theism which have lost the context provided by these practices.” — Alasdair C. MacIntyre Copy Share Image
“There is no way to understand the character of the taboo rules, except as a survival from some previous more elaborate cultural background. We… — Alasdair C. MacIntyre Copy Share Image
“Moral judgments are linguistic survivals from the practices of classical theism which have lost the context provided by these practices.” — Alasdair C. MacIntyre Copy Share Image
“For Kant one can be both good and stupid; but for Aristotle stupidity of a certain kind precludes goodness.” — Alasdair C. MacIntyre Copy Share Image
“To have understood the polymorphous character of pleasure and happiness is of course to have rendered those concepts useless for utilitarian purposes; if the… — Alasdair C. MacIntyre Copy Share Image
“Kant was right; morality did in the eighteenth century, as a matter of historical fact, presuppose something very like the teleological scheme of God,… — Alasdair C. MacIntyre Copy Share Image
“We are so accustomed to classifying judgments, arguments and deeds in terms of morality that we forget how relatively new the notion was in… — Alasdair C. MacIntyre Copy Share Image
