Alasdair MacIntyre Quotes

Imprisoning philosophy within the professionalizations and specializations of an institutionalized c...

All power tends to coopt, and absolute power coopts absolutely.

History is neither a prison nor a museum, nor is it a set of materials for self-congratulation.

Plato in both the Gorgias and the Republic looked back to Socrates and asserted that "it is better t...

At the foundation of moral thinking lie beliefs in statements the truth of which no further reason c...

It is through hearing stories about wicked stepmothers, lost children, good but misguided kings, wol...

Whenever those immersed in the bureaucratic culture of the age try to think their way through to the...

The introduction of the word ‘intuition’ by a moral philosopher is always a signal that something ha...

I can be said truly to know who and what I am only because there are others who can be said truly to...

To call the Form [of the Good] eternal is misleading: that something lasts forever does not render i...

The attempted professionalization of serious and systematic thinking has had a disastrous effect upo...