Alasdair C. MacIntyre

“There is no way to understand the character of the taboo rules, except as a survival from some previous more elaborate cultural…

— Alasdair C. MacIntyre

“Moral judgments are linguistic survivals from the practices of classical theism which have lost the context provided by these practices.”

— Alasdair C. MacIntyre

“For Kant one can be both good and stupid; but for Aristotle stupidity of a certain kind precludes goodness.”

— Alasdair C. MacIntyre

“To have understood the polymorphous character of pleasure and happiness is of course to have rendered those concepts useless for utilitarian purposes;…

— Alasdair C. MacIntyre

“Kant was right; morality did in the eighteenth century, as a matter of historical fact, presuppose something very like the teleological scheme…

— Alasdair C. MacIntyre

“We are so accustomed to classifying judgments, arguments and deeds in terms of morality that we forget how relatively new the notion…

— Alasdair C. MacIntyre