From Grammar to Metaphysics, From Adjectives to Evils - Alasdair MacIntyre

Video from de Nicola Center for Ethics and Culture

From Grammar to Metaphysics, From Adjectives to Evils - Alasdair MacIntyre

"Keynote address given at the 2017 Notre Dame Fall Conference." from the video introduction

Remembering Alasdair MacIntyre (1929-2025)

"For more than seven decades, Alasdair MacIntyre was a prolific and provocative philosopher. The author of more than two hundred scholarly articles and more than twenty books, MacIntyre’s best known work, After Virtue, was described in 1981 by Newsweek as “a stunning new study of ethics by one of the foremost moral philosophers in the English-speaking world.” Conventional wisdom had offered the bare alternatives of Kantian duty based ethics and utilitarian consequentialist ethics. Echoing themes found in Elizabeth Anscombe’s “Modern Moral Philosophy,” After Virtue revolutionized the field by reintroducing virtue ethics as a viable alternative and by calling into question modern moral philosophy as an attempt to make sense of the shards left over from the shattered premodern synthesis of Athens and Jerusalem..." from the article: Remembering Alasdair MacIntyre (1929-2025)

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