In After Virtue, there’s a passage where he says the “problems of modern moral theory emerge clearly as the product of the failure of the Enlightenment project,” and so on.

Alasdair Macintyre in 1990. His quest to prove there was an objective foundation to moral virtue was a lonely project, but it drew a large, varied and growing crowd of admirers. Steve Pyke ...

I have to say, however, that it suffers from a fatal flaw. From his early youth, MacIntyre accepted Karl Marx’s analysis of capitalism, and he never altered that position, ending up with an odd ...

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.

In the Flannery O'Connor short story "Good Country People," a mother ruefully wishes her offspring had chosen another career path than philosophy because, "You could not say, 'My daughter is a ...

Alasdair MacIntyre, emeritus professor of philosophy at the University of Notre Dame, gives the plenary lecture at the university's de Nicola Center for Ethics and Culture's 2019 fall conference Nov.

St. Thomas Aquinas celebrates after winning the Class 6A state baseball title with an 8-3 win against Buchholz. / Joe Frisaro After all, the Raiders average 9.3 runs per game. But with everything ...

First of all, let me introduce you to the master of the subject. Thomas Aquinas (1225–1274) was one of the greatest philosophers and theologians in the history of humanity. Imagine a guy who managed ...

Or again, as St. Thomas Aquinas notes, the scriptures assure: “Will not God avenge His elect who cry to Him day and night?” (Lk 18:7). But if vengeance is only a vice and an evil, then how can God ...

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When asking ChatGPT what it makes of Thomas Aquinas, the answer is to the point: “I view Aquinas as a seminal figure in Western philosophy and theology, particularly known for his integration of ...

When asking ChatGPT what it makes of Thomas Aquinas, the answer is to the point: “I view Aquinas as a seminal figure in Western philosophy and theology, particularly known for his integration of ...