At least within conservative and Ch...

At least within conservative and Christian circles, Alastair Maclntyre's influential 1981 work After Virtue, has become fairly well-known. if it be not that I wish it would be read plane more widely, because it gives deep insights into our contemporary predicament. Maclntyre argues his thesis as befits a professor of philosophy and that may restrain some readers. So, at the risk of doing irreparable damage to the shrewdness and scope of Maclntyre's thesis, allow me try to summarize what I consider to be its essential message in eight propositions.

1 We have squandered our comprehension--both theoretical and practical--of morality. In this