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Why Human Beings Need the Virtues
In Dependent Rational Animals, Alasdair MacIntyre compares humans to other intelligent animals, ultimately drawing remarkable conclusions about human ...
Alasdair MacIntyre is one of the most controversial philosophers and social theorists of our time. He opposes liberalism and postmodernism with the te...
Is there any cause or war worth risking one's life for? How can we determine which actions are vices and which virtues? MacIntyre, professor of philos...
A History of Moral Philosophy from the Homeric Age to the Twentieth Century
In this classic work, Alasdair MacIntyre guides the reader through the history of moral philosophy from the Greeks to contemporary times. He emphasize...
Essays on Ideology and Philosophy
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A Study in Moral Theory
This classic and controversial book examines the roots of the idea of virtue, diagnoses the reasons for its absence in modern life, and proposes a pat...
A Selective History of the Catholic Philosophical Tradition
MacIntyre gives the reader an extremely perceptive account of the role of religion in modern culture and society as a whole......
A Conceptual Analysis
First published in 1958, 'The Unconscious' still ranks as one of the most important and clearly written philosophical inquiries into the fundamental c...
Presents MacIntyre's most explicit defense of his approach to Thomistic metaphysics. This lecture follows MacIntyre's argument in After Virtue that mo...
Selected Essays
This volume presents a selection of Alasdair MacIntyre's classic essays on ethics and politics, focussing particularly on the themes of moral disagree...
Contending that Marxism achieved its unique position in part by adopting the content and functions of Christianity, MacIntyre details the religious at...
A Philosophical Prologue, 1913-1922
Edith Stein lived an unconventional life. Born into a devout Jewish family, she drifted into atheism in her mid teens, took up the study of philosophy...
An Exposition and a Polemic
The tasks of philosophy. Volume 1
This volume presents 10 of MacIntyre's most influential essays written over almost 30 years. They range over such topics as the issues raised by diffe...
Encyclopaedia, Genealogy, and Tradition : Being Gifford Lectures Delivered in the University of Edinburgh in 1988
MacIntyre's project, here as elsewhere, is to put up a fight against philosophical relativism. . . . The current form is the 'incommensurability, ' so...
Three Essays
Selected Writings 1953-1974
In the 1950s and '60s Alasdair MacIntyre was one of the most erudite members of Britain's Marxist left. This selection of his essays on Marxism from t...
A Collection of Critical Essays
An Essay on Desire, Practical Reasoning, and Narrative
"This essay is divided into five chapters. In the first the questions initially posed about our desires and how we should think about them are questio...
Selections from David Hume