Alasdair MacIntyre is one of the world's most influential living moral philosophers. He has written 30 books on ethics and held a variety of professorial chairs over the past four decades in North America.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
I find books that have a moral and spiritual center, that speak to what is really important and lasting, hugely appealing.
The teacher who would be true to his mission and accomplish the most good, must give prominence to moral as well as intellectual instruction.
The novel is a penetrating study of morals and ethics.
Ethical and questions of philosophy interest me a great deal.
There are so many good authors; there's no shortage of them.
I think of myself as a serious professor who, during the weekend, writes novels.
My kind publishers, Toby Mundy and Margaret Stead of Atlantic Books, have commissioned me to write the life of Queen Victoria.
I think that novels are tools of thought. They are moral philosophy with the theory left out, with just the examples of the moral situations left standing.
There was a writer in the '20s called Christopher Morley, who I remember a little bit of, who had some influence on me, but I couldn't tell you what it was.
Don't feel embarrassed if you've never heard of William Lane Craig. He parades himself as a philosopher, but none of the professors of philosophy whom I consulted had heard his name, either.