Modern systematic politics, whether liberal, conservative, radical, or socialist, simply has to be rejected from a standpoint that owes genuine allegiance to the tradition of the virtues; for modern politics itself expresses in its institutional forms a systematic rejection of that tradition
Alasdair MacIntyreCharles II once invited the members of the Royal Society to explain to him why a dead fish weighs more than the same fish alive; a number of subtle explanations were offered to him. He then pointed out that it does not.
Alasdair MacIntyreI can only answer the question โWhat am I to do?โ if I can answer the prior question โOf what story or stories do I find myself a part?โ
Alasdair MacIntyreAt the foundation of moral thinking lie beliefs in statements the truth of which no further reason can be given.
Alasdair MacIntyreIt is only by participation in a rational, practice-based community that one becomes rational.
Alasdair MacIntyreModern systematic politics, whether liberal, conservative, radical, or socialist, simply has to be rejected from a standpoint that owes genuine allegiance to the tradition of the virtues; for modern politics itself expresses in its institutional forms a systematic rejection of that tradition
Alasdair MacIntyre