Alasdair MacIntyre

• Taking a Step Back: Here’s an Overview of My Argument

  What I’m trying to do here is probably not ideal for blog or Newsletter, but should rather be in a book. I’m not particularly motivated to write a book that nobody is going to read, but it might be useful exercise for me and for the few people who are interested to try to integrate

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• Getting to the Big Story

  [If readers here are too busy or shy to ask questions, I’ll ask them for you. If you have better ones, ask them in comments.] Q: Here's what I don't get so far. You say metaphysics is best understood as story or a narrative. That makes no sense to me. Stories are things we make

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• No Narrative, no Virtue; No Virtue, no Narrative

  In After Virtue, MacIntyre moves from the chapter “Nietzsche or Aristotle” to a consideration about what virtue meant in what he calls heroic societies—the societies represented in the Homeric epics, the Norse Edda, the Irish stories in the Ulster Cycle, etc. His point is one that I’ve often made—that Christian Europe was always as much

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