MacIntyre, Alasdair

In this essay, Stanley Hauerwas explains the breadth and depth of  Alasdair MacIntyre’s thought, the goal of which was to help people to act intelligibly and live morally worthy lives. (40 minutes)

Alasdair MacIntyre on why unmasking nefarious motives became “one of the most characteristically modern of activities”

Alasdair MacIntyre on the dependence of rationality on a lived tradition

Herbert McCabe, O.P. on the Aristotelian, Thomistic, and MacIntyrean account of the moral life

FROM VOL. 146 Mark Mitchell asks whether there is anything that truly binds Americans together beyond their commitment to self-creation. (34 minutes)

FROM VOL. 127 Historian Christopher Shannon discusses how American academic historical writing presents a grand narrative of progressivism, which it defends by subscribing to an orthodoxy of objective Reason. (21 minutes)

Thaddeus J. Kozinski on reading modernity’s symptoms wisely (and wonder-fully)

With excerpts from books and lectures by Alasdair MacIntyre, Oliver O'Donovan, and Wendell Berry, Ken Myers argues that modern political theory has guaranteed increasing levels of public conflict. (19 minutes)

Peter Harrison on the creation of an allegedly neutral public sphere

Alasdair MacIntyre on the systematic rejection of the tradition of the virtues in modern political institutions

Alasdair MacIntyre on the problem of natural law and contemporary culture

Alasdair MacIntyre on how the task of religion is to help see the secular as the sacred, the world as under God.

Roger Kimball introduces listeners to Josef Pieper’s arguments about the nature of leisure, which are claims about the nature of philosophy and of human well-being. (34 minutes)

Alasdair MacIntyre on the importance of theology in liberal arts education

Philip Turner examines “the subversion of Christian belief and practice by the logic of autonomous individualism”