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54The Unconscious: A Conceptual Analysis (Revised Edition)Routledge. 1976.This new edition includes a substantial new preface by the author, in which he discusses repression, determinism, transference, and "practical rationality," and ...
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42Review of Raymond Geuss, Outside Ethics (review)Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews 2006 (3). 2006.
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11First principles, final ends, and contemporary philosophical issuesMarquette University Press. 1990.Presents MacIntyre's most explicit defense of his approach to Thomistic metaphysics. This lecture follows MacIntyre's argument in After Virtue that modern philosophy has very literally lost its way, and the problems it faces are insoluble. The difficulties are twofold, and stem from the Cartesian turn to the self in the XVith century.
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55My Station and Its VirtuesJournal of Philosophical Research 19 1-8. 1994.This paper compares the central theses of Edmund M. Pincoffs’s Quandaries and Virtues with those of F. H. Bradley’s Ethical Studies. Both Pincoffs and Bradley understand virtues and duties as functional in respect of the common good of the social order. Both reject the individualism of Kantian and utilitarian theories. Both believe that ordinary moral agents do not appeal to and do not need to appeal to the kinds of justification for action defended by such theories. It is argued that the import…Read more
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104The Savage MindPhilosophical Quarterly 17 (69): 372. 1967."Every word, like a sacred object, has its place. No _précis_ is possible. This extraordinary book must be read."—Edmund Carpenter, _New York Times Book Review _ "No outline is possible; I can only say that reading this book is a most exciting intellectual exercise in which dialectic, wit, and imagination combine to stimulate and provoke at every page."—Edmund Leach, _Man _ "Lévi-Strauss's books are tough: very scholarly, very dense, very rapid in argument. But once you have mastered him, human …Read more
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40Practical Rationalities As Forms of Social StructureIrish Philosophical Journal 4 (1-2): 3-19. 1987.
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115Ends and EndingsAmerican Catholic Philosophical Quarterly 88 (4): 807-821. 2014.The question posed in this paper is: Is there an end to some type of activity which is the end of any rational agent? It approaches an answer by a critical examination of one view of human beings that excludes this possibility, that advanced by Harry Frankfurt. It is argued that once we have distinguished, as Frankfurt does not, that which we have good reason to care about from that which we do not have good reason to care about, we are able to identify a conception of a final end for human acti…Read more
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52The Claims of After VirtueAnalyse & Kritik 6 (1): 3-7. 1984.After Virtue claims that it is characteristic of contemporary society that its debates are peculiarly unsettlable; that this state of affairs is the result of the failure by the thinkers of the Enlightenment to construct a rational, secular defence of shared moral principles; and that the Aristotelian tradition of the virtues provides the only rationally defensible alternative to post-Enlightenment morality.
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13Philosophy and LanguageProceedings of the American Catholic Philosophical Association 84 23-32. 2010.
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9Hegel on faces and skullsIn Arto Laitinen & Constantine Sandis (eds.), Hegel on action, Palgrave-macmillan. 2010.
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129What Morality Is NotPhilosophy 32 (123). 1957.The central task to which contemporary moral philosophers have addressed themselves is that of listing the distinctive characteristics of moral utterances. In this paper I am concerned to propound an entirely negative thesis about these characteristics. It is widely held that it is of the essence of moral valuations that they are universalisable and prescriptive. This is the contention which I wish to deny. I shall proceed by first examining the thesis that moral judgments are necessarily and es…Read more
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53Value and Context: The Nature of Moral and Political Knowledge (review)Journal of Moral Philosophy 5 (1): 151-154. 2008.
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7Reply to Dahl, Baier and SchneewindPhilosophy and Phenomenological Research 51 (1): 169-178. 1991.
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10God, Philosophy, Universities: A Selective History of the Catholic Philosophical TraditionRowman & Littlefield Publishers. 2009.Alasdair MacIntyre has written a selective history of the Catholic philosophical tradition, designed to show how belief in God informed and informs philosophical enquiry in different historical and social settings
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189After virtue: a study in moral theoryUniversity of Notre Dame Press. 1981.This classic and controversial book examines the roots of the idea of virtue, diagnoses the reasons for its absence in modern life, and proposes a path for its recovery.
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