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 ...

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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 ...

SOUTH BEND, Ind. — Famed ethicist Alasdair MacIntyre called upon academia, and other Catholics and intellectuals, to invest in the “expensive conversation” about justice, and to sharpen their ...

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 ...

Alasdair MacIntyre, a philosopher who metamorphosed from a London Marxist into a Midwestern American Catholic during a decadeslong quest to prove there was an objective foundation to moral virtue -- a ...

Émile Perreau-Saussine, trans. from the French by Nathan J. Pinkoski. Univ. of Notre Dame, $40 (228p) ISBN 978-0-268-20325-2 Perreau-Saussine (Catholicism and Democracy), who lectured in politics and ...

Fifty years ago, William F. Buckley Jr. vowed not to read another book about liberalism until his mother wrote one. Liberalism was riding high then, and Buckley was probably annoyed by its champions’ ...

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 ...