Quotes from Alasdair C. MacIntyre

We are so accustomed to classifying judgments, arguments and deeds in terms of morality that we forget how relatively new the notion was in the culture of the Enlightenment.

At the foundation of moral thinking lie beliefs in statements the truth of which no further reason can be given.

Imprisoning philosophy within the professionalizations and specializations of an institutionalized curriculum, after the manner of our contemporary European and North American culture, is arguably a good deal more effective in neutralizing its effects than either religious censorship or political terror

For Kant one can be both good and stupid; but for Aristotle stupidity of a certain kind precludes goodness.

Moral judgments are linguistic survivals from the practices of classical theism which have lost the context provided by these practices.

Kant was right; morality did in the eighteenth century, as a matter of historical fact, presuppose something very like the teleological scheme of God, freedom and happiness as the final crown of virtue which Kant propounds. Detach morality from that framework and you will no longer have morality; or, at the very least, you will have radically transformed its character.