Comrade Aristotle?

[ Ethics and the Conflicts of Modernity: An Essay on Desire, Practical Reasoning, and Narrative by Alasdair MacIntyre (Cambridge University Press, 2016; 322 pp.)] The dying of Alasdair MacIntyre on Might 22 has occasioned many tributes to this exceptional thinker who—within the later many years of his very lengthy life—embraced Thomistic Aristotelianism, albeit of an idiosyncratic kind. His best-known guide was After Advantage, which appeared in 1981, however he altered his place after it appeared; and for that purpose, I’m going to remark this week on his final full-length guide, Ethics and the Conflicts of