Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. MacIntyre (1992): thanks to his work, few now doubt the importance of the tie that binds - Steve Pyke/Getty Images Professor ...

Why should an ordinary Catholic care about what happens at a muckety-muck academic conference? It’s a fair question, and I expect it’s one that more than a few Catholics have asked when coming across ...

Alasdair MacIntyre, a towering figure in moral philosophy and a Catholic convert credited with reviving the discipline of virtue ethics, died on May 21 at age 96. His seminal 1981 work After Virtue ...

This has been around for three election cycles, but John Schwenkler revived it on his Facebook page. It’s an essay by the philosopher Alasdair MacIntyre, who says you shouldn’t have to choose between ...

I still remember the first time I read Alasdair MacIntyre’s After Virtue. I was a graduate student in religious ethics at Yale, and someone, perhaps my advisor, suggested that I take a look at it. As ...

One of the world’s greatest Catholic philosophers died May 21. Alasdair Chalmers MacIntyre was 96. Normally classified as a philosopher of ethics, MacIntyre was a fierce critic of modern ethical ...

When Alasdair MacIntyre sat down to write After Virtue in 1981, he didn’t just pen a book — he launched a philosophical rebellion. The Scottish American thinker, who died on May 21 at 96 in South Bend ...

My live blogging of Alasdair MacIntyre’s speech, and Q&A, at Notre Dame’s Center for Ethics and Culture’s 2018 fall conference is below. Livestream here: UPDATE: Aquinas thought “religion” was a ...

In 1971 the philosopher Alasdair MacIntyre published Against the Self-Images of the Age. Literary theorist Terry Eagleton reviewed the book, in what appears to be one of his earliest pieces for the NS ...

“..Whether or not Macintyre has cleansed himself of certain neurosis by creating this recent body of work is a question that only time will tell... ” ...

Alasdair Chalmers MacIntyre, a philosopher renowned for his study of virtue-based ethics, and his work across the disciplines of philosophy, theology and politics, died May 21 at age 96. For MacIntyre ...