In this second of a two-part article, Brian Coman continues with his analysis of the writings of Alasdair MacIntyre, a Scottish moral philosopher who currently teaches at Notre Dame University in Indiana.In the first part of this article (News Weekly, March 4, 2006), we dealt with MacIntyre’s general thesis concerning the grave state of “the virtues” in modern Western societies. Part of the problem manifests itself in the way humans interact with each other in the modern consumer society and, pa…
