I have confronted theoretical positions whose protagonists claim that what I take to be historically produced characteristics of what is specifically modern are in fact the timelessly necessary characteristics of all and any moral judgment, of all and any selfhood. — Alasdair MacIntyre Copy Share Image
Individuals inherit a particular space within an interlocking set of social relationships; lacking that space, they are nobody, or at best a stranger or an outcast. To know oneself as such a social person is however not to occupy a… — Alasdair MacIntyre Copy Share Image
The bureaucratic manager, the consuming aesthete, the therapist, the protester and their numerous kindred occupy almost all the available culturally recognizable roles, the notions… — Alasdair MacIntyre Copy Share Image
“the characterization of actions allegedly prior to any narrative form being imposed upon them will always turn out to be the presentation of what… — Alasdair MacIntyre Copy Share Image
“Indeed, one of the functions of the structures of normality is that by making it unnecessary for almost everybody almost all the time to… — Alasdair MacIntyre Copy Share Image
Facts, like telescopes and wigs for gentlemen, were a seventeenth century invention. — Alasdair MacIntyre Copy Share Image
The good life for man is the life spent in seeking for the good life for man, and the virtues necessary for the seeking… — Alasdair MacIntyre Copy Share Image
Those emotive theorists who said that the function of moral utterance was to evince emotion would... have been correct if they had substituted the… — Alasdair MacIntyre Copy Share Image
Charles II once invited the members of the Royal Society to explain to him why a dead fish weighs more than the same fish… — Alasdair MacIntyre Copy Share Image
Morality which is no particular socity's morality is to be found nowhere. — Alasdair MacIntyre Copy Share Image
“The true genre of the life is neither hagiography nor saga, but tragedy.” — Alasdair MacIntyre Copy Share Image
What our laws show is the extent and degree to which conflict has to be suppressed. — Alasdair MacIntyre Copy Share Image
Modern systematic politics, whether liberal, conservative, radical, or socialist, simply has to be rejected from a standpoint that owes genuine allegiance to the tradition… — Alasdair MacIntyre Copy Share Image
