Getting Alasdair MacIntyre Very, Very Wrong
A title for nonfiction creates clear expectations. Fail to live up to it, and the reader will find fault where none may be. When I first picked…
A title for nonfiction creates clear expectations. Fail to live up to it, and the reader will find fault where none may be. When I first picked…
“[S]tories and theses about rule-following and rule-breaking, about achieving and failing to achieve goods, have to be understood together or not at all.” If Alasdair MacIntyre is…
God, Philosophy, Universities. A Selective History of the Catholic Philosophical Tradition. Alasdair MacIntyre. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield, 2009. God, Philosophy, Universities traces the idea of…
In the opening paragraphs of his renowned After Virtue (1981), Alasdair MacIntyre shares with us the vision of a world in which discourse has been disconnected from…
Papal writings concerning democracy and economics have occasioned much confusion and debate in the period following the close of the Second Vatican Council, especially since the ascension…
Alasdair Macintyre, Charles Taylor, and the Demise of Naturalism. Review of Jason Blakely. Notre Dame University Press, 2016. Jason Blakely’s Alasdair Macintyre, Charles Taylor, and the…
God, Philosophy, Universities: A Selective History of Catholic Philosophical Tradition. Alasdair MacIntyre. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield, 2009. In Ex Corde Ecclesiae John Paul II reiterated…