"MacIntyre's whole attitude to Aristotle is a curious mixture of admiration for his methods and detestation of his...

"MacIntyre's whole attitude to Aristotle is a curious mixture of admiration for his methods and detestation of his results"
What the fuck is his problem?

He doesn't like slavery

This man, in my country he is everything.

Not even a Catholic but I love MacIntyre

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But surely you can appreciate Aristoteles results without pressing them through your moral filter?

Great Scott!

Completely new to him, where should I start? Also I've only read Ethics and Rhetoric from Aristotele and (Penguin's) Selected Writings from Aquinas, am I good to go into MacIntyre?

I haven't had the chance to read it yet but everyone on here seems to promote After Virtue as the best that MacIntyre has to offer. Maybe someone who knows more about the totality of his works will show up to help you though.

Not that big on Aristotle desu.

Can someone give me the basic gestalt on grandpa here?

All understanding is based in broad traditions of thought.
Because of liberalism, enlightenment and loss of religious belief, we lost our tradition and failed to replace it with something coherent.
This is why we now are polarised and cannot talk to each other, our concepts of good are radically different and completely incompatible.
This is why we need to move back to Aristote, and why we need the notion of telos, ethics cannot be constructed without it.