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Alasdair MacIntyre

“The hypothesis which I wish to advance is that in the actual world which we inhabit the language of morality is in the same state of grave disorder as the language of natural science in the imaginary world which I described. What we possess, if this view is true, are the fragments of a conceptual scheme, parts which now lack those contexts from which their significance derived. We possess indeed simulacra of morality, we continue to use many of the key expressions. But we have—very largely, if not entirely—lost our comprehension, both theoretical and practical, or morality”

Alasdair MacIntyre, After Virtue: A Study in Moral Theory
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After Virtue: A Study in Moral Theory After Virtue: A Study in Moral Theory by Alasdair MacIntyre
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