Family life, as we have seen, is one of these, but so are chess, architecture, physics, medicine, and so on. MacIntyre encourages us to see our lives, or at least the key parts of them, as lived inside practices. And, as we saw, it is by exercising the virtues and pursuing excellence in each practice that we can, together with other practitioners, attain the internal goods of that practice. And these internal goods, together with those from the other practices in which we engage, lead to the good for ourselves and hence to us fulfilling our own purposes in life—though recognizing that it is in
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