God, Philosophy, Universities: A Selective History of the Catholic Philosophical Tradition

This book is largely a written version of MacIntyre's Notre Dame course on the topic. As such, it increases the reach of his reading public considerably. It is superbly written for this wider audience. Although everyone who is able should still go on to read his standards, e.g. After Virtue, Whose Justice? Which Rationality?, Three Rival Versions of Moral Enquiry, and Dependent Rational Animals, this new book encapsulates essential MacIntyrean insights into the nature of virtue, its connection with the pursuit of the meaning of life, the essential connectedness of various academic disciplines, the centrality of intellectual tradition, the relationship between our moral condition and our philosophical outlook, and the relationship of philosophy to theology, among many others. That is, it demonstrates the profundity, yes and the wisdom, of MacIntyre's mature philosophical perspective. Another excellent book by the most important social and ethical philosopher of our time.