A striking feature of moral and political argument in the modern world is the extent to which it is innovators, radicals, and revolutionaries who revive old doctrines, while their conservative and reactionary opponents are the inventors of new ones. — Alasdair MacIntyre Copy Share Image
It is through hearing stories about wicked stepmothers, lost children, good but misguided kings, wolves that suckle twin boys, youngest sons who receive no inheritance but must make their own way in the world, and eldest sons who waste their… — 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
