MacIntyre (1992): thanks to his work, few now doubt the importance of the tie that binds - Steve Pyke/Getty Images Professor Alasdair MacIntyre, who has died aged 96, was one of the most important ...

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” ...

Famed ethicist Alasdair MacIntyre called upon academia and other Catholics and intellectuals to invest in the “expensive conversation” about justice, and to sharpen their understanding of what ...

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 ...

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’ ...

“..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 ...