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Traditions, when vital, embody continuities of conflict. Indeed when a tradition becomes Burkean, it is always dying or dead.

Traditions, when vital, embody continuities of conflict. Indeed when a tradition becomes Burkean, it is always dying or dead.

Alasdair MacIntyre
Dying, Conflict, Tradition
Alasdair MacIntyre (2013). “After Virtue”, p.257, A&C Black

The attempted professionalization of serious and systematic thinking has had a disastrous effect upon our culture

Alasdair MacIntyre
Thinking, Culture, Systematic

What our laws show is the extent and degree to which conflict has to be suppressed.

Alasdair MacIntyre
Law, Degrees, Conflict
Alasdair MacIntyre (2013). “After Virtue”, p.294, A&C Black

Raymond Aron ascribes to Weber the view that 'each man's conscience is irrefutable.' ... while [Weber] holds that an agent may be more or less rational in acting consistently with his values, the choice of any one particular evaluative stance or commitment can be no more rational than any other. All faiths and all evaluations are equally non-rational.

Alasdair MacIntyre
Commitment, Views, Choices
"After Virtue". Book by Alasdair MacIntyre, 1981.

The hypothesis I wish to advance is thatthe language of morality is ingrave disorder.... What we possess, if this is true, are the fragments of a conceptual scheme, parts of which now lack those contexts from which their significance derived. We possess indeed simulacra of morality, we continue to use many of the key expressions. But we have--very largely if not entirely--lost our comprehension, both theoretical and practical, of morality.

Alasdair MacIntyre
Keys, Expression, Wish

I have confronted theoretical positions whose protagonists claim that what I take to be historically produced characteristics of what is specifically modern are in fact the timelessly necessary characteristics of all and any moral judgment, of all and any selfhood.

Alasdair MacIntyre
Facts, Moral, Judgment
Alasdair MacIntyre (1981). “After Virtue: A Study in Moral Theory”, Gerald Duckworth & Co Ltd

Those emotive theorists who said that the function of moral utterance was to evince emotion would... have been correct if they had substituted the indefinite for the definite article.

Alasdair MacIntyre
Psychology, Utterance, Ethics

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