What is the ultimate source of our moral code? Are “the virtues” still alive and well in modern society? These are some of the questions tackled by one of the world’s foremost living philosophers, Alasdair MacIntyre.In the first of a two-part article on MacIntyre, Brian Coman examines some of his more important ideas concerning the state of “the virtues” in the modern West.”Call no man happy until he is dead” goes a saying from the ancient Greeks. It may seem a rather harsh judgment on the human…
