MACINTYRE, Alasdair

Dependent Rational Animals

This essay is Alasdair MacIntyre’s greatest book on political philosophy and stands as a pinnacle of contemporary political thought. It reflects on the fact that animality, dependence, and vulnerability are...

After virtue

A moral philosophy essay aimed at demonstrating the failure of the ethical project of modernity, in which, unlike classical thought, the notion of purpose is lost.

For a time, the precepts of the law...