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> [The good life for man is the life spent in seeking for the good life for man, and the virtues necessary for the seeking are those which will enable us to understand what more and what else the good life…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alasdair-macintyre/the-good-life-for-man-is-the-life-spent-in-seeking-for-the-good-life/)

[Alasdair MacIntyre](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alasdair-macintyre/)

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## More by Alasdair MacIntyre

> [The bureaucratic manager, the consuming aesthete, the therapist, the protester and their numerous kindred occupy almost all the available culturally recognizable roles, the notions…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alasdair-macintyre/the-bureaucratic-manager-the-consuming-aesthete-the-therapist-the/)

[Alasdair MacIntyre](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alasdair-macintyre/)

> [Modern politics is civil war carried on by other means.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alasdair-macintyre/modern-politics-is-civil-war-carried-on-by-other-means/)

[Alasdair MacIntyre](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alasdair-macintyre/)

> [“the characterization of actions allegedly prior to any narrative form being imposed upon them will always turn out to be the presentation of what…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alasdair-macintyre/the-characterization-of-actions-allegedly-prior-to-any-narrative-form/)

[Alasdair MacIntyre](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alasdair-macintyre/)

> [“Indeed, one of the functions of the structures of normality is that by making it unnecessary for almost everybody almost all the time to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alasdair-macintyre/indeed-one-of-the-functions-of-the-structures-of-normality-is-that-by/)

[Alasdair MacIntyre](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alasdair-macintyre/)

> [Facts, like telescopes and wigs for gentlemen, were a seventeenth century invention.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alasdair-macintyre/facts-like-telescopes-and-wigs-for-gentlemen-were-a-seventeenth/)

[Alasdair MacIntyre](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alasdair-macintyre/)

> [The good life for man is the life spent in seeking for the good life for man, and the virtues necessary for the seeking…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alasdair-macintyre/the-good-life-for-man-is-the-life-spent-in-seeking-for-the-good-life/)

[Alasdair MacIntyre](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alasdair-macintyre/)

> [Those emotive theorists who said that the function of moral utterance was to evince emotion would... have been correct if they had substituted the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alasdair-macintyre/those-emotive-theorists-who-said-that-the-function-of-moral-utterance/)

[Alasdair MacIntyre](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alasdair-macintyre/)

> [Charles II once invited the members of the Royal Society to explain to him why a dead fish weighs more than the same fish…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alasdair-macintyre/charles-ii-once-invited-the-members-of-the-royal-society-to-explain/)

[Alasdair MacIntyre](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alasdair-macintyre/)

> [Morality which is no particular socity's morality is to be found nowhere.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alasdair-macintyre/morality-which-is-no-particular-socity-s-morality-is-to-be-found/)

[Alasdair MacIntyre](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alasdair-macintyre/)

> [“The true genre of the life is neither hagiography nor saga, but tragedy.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alasdair-macintyre/the-true-genre-of-the-life-is-neither-hagiography-nor-saga-but-tragedy/)

[Alasdair MacIntyre](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alasdair-macintyre/)

> [What our laws show is the extent and degree to which conflict has to be suppressed.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alasdair-macintyre/what-our-laws-show-is-the-extent-and-degree-to-which-conflict-has-to/)

[Alasdair MacIntyre](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alasdair-macintyre/)

> [Modern systematic politics, whether liberal, conservative, radical, or socialist, simply has to be rejected from a standpoint that owes genuine allegiance to the tradition…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alasdair-macintyre/modern-systematic-politics-whether-liberal-conservative-radical-or/)

[Alasdair MacIntyre](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alasdair-macintyre/)

> [“unless there is a telos which transcends the limited goods of practices by constituting the good of a whole human life, the good of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alasdair-macintyre/unless-there-is-a-telos-which-transcends-the-limited-goods-of/)

[Alasdair MacIntyre](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alasdair-macintyre/)

> [Traditions, when vital, embody continuities of conflict. Indeed when a tradition becomes Burkean, it is always dying or dead.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alasdair-macintyre/traditions-when-vital-embody-continuities-of-conflict-indeed-when-a/)

[Alasdair MacIntyre](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alasdair-macintyre/)

> [The attempted professionalization of serious and systematic thinking has had a disastrous effect upon our culture](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alasdair-macintyre/the-attempted-professionalization-of-serious-and-systematic-thinking/)

[Alasdair MacIntyre](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alasdair-macintyre/)

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