More recently, Alasdair MacIntyre has attempted to reform what he calls the Aristotelian tradition in a way that is anti-elitist and capable of disputing the claims of both liberals and Nietzscheans.

* MacIntyre, Alasdair ( 1990 ).

* MacIntyre, Alasdair ( 1984 ).

In addition, Nietzsche ( in Beyond Good and Evil ) and Alasdair MacIntyre ( in After Virtue ) have pointed out that the ancient Greeks did not associate morality with altruism in the way that post-Christian Western civilization has done.

Some notable philosophers, such as Alasdair MacIntyre, have theorized freedom in terms of our social interdependence with other people.

* Alasdair C. MacIntyre

* Alasdair MacIntyre

* MacIntyre, Alasdair, After Virtue: A Study in Moral Theory ( University of Notre Dame Press, 1984, 2nd edn.

* January 12 – Alasdair MacIntyre, Scottish-born American philosopher

The philosopher Alasdair MacIntyre published a book in 2006 titled, Edith Stein: A Philosophical Prologue, 1913-1922, in which he contrasted Stein's living out of her own personal philosophy with Martin Heidegger, whose actions during the Nazi era according to MacIntyre suggested a " bifurcation of personality.

* MacIntyre, Alasdair ( 1990 ).

Against this, Alasdair MacIntyre has argued that a narrative understanding of oneself, of one's capacity as an independent reasoner, one's dependence on others and on the social practices and traditions in which one participates, all tend towards an ultimate good of liberation.

However, the university has also contributed in other fields, such as by the work of mathematicians Paul Erdős, Horace Lamb and Alan Turing ; author Anthony Burgess ; philosophers Samuel Alexander, Ludwig Wittgenstein and Alasdair MacIntyre ; the Pritzker Prize and RIBA Stirling Prize winning architect Norman Foster and composer Peter Maxwell Davies all attended, or worked in, Manchester.

Patrons of the Institute include Professors John Haldane, Alasdair MacIntyre Ralph McInerny ( d. 2010 ) and Eleonore Stump.

* Alasdair MacIntyre – A Short History of Ethics

The work of Alasdair MacIntyre informs the versions of postmodernism elaborated by such authors as Murphy ( 2003 ) and Bielskis ( 2005 ), for whom MacIntyre's postmodern revision of Aristotelianism poses a challenge to the kind of consumerist ideology that now promotes capital accumulation.

Alasdair MacIntyre.

However, as Alasdair MacIntyre notes ( in After Virtue, 2007 ), Sidgwick reluctantly had to confess that he had gone in search for Cosmos and found only Chaos, i. e., he could find no rational foundation to basic moral beliefs ; where he had hoped to find unity, he could only locate heterogeneity.

* Alasdair MacIntyre

There is, and always has been, sharp disagreement on this question: thus, as Alasdair MacIntyre observed in After Virtue, though thinkers as diverse as Homer, Aristotle, the authors of the New Testament, Thomas Aquinas, and Benjamin Franklin have all proposed lists, and sometimes theories of the interrelation, of the virtues, these do not always overlap.

Other proponents of virtue theory, notably Alasdair MacIntyre, respond to this objection by arguing that any account of the virtues must indeed be generated out of the community in which those virtues are to be practiced: the very word ' ethics ' implies ' ethos '.

The contemporary Aristotelian philosopher Alasdair MacIntyre is specially famous for helping to revive virtue ethics in his book After Virtue.

* MacIntyre, Alasdair, After Virtue: A Study in Moral Theory, University of Notre Dame Press, 1984 / Duckworth, 1985 ( 2nd edn.

There has been a significant revival of virtue ethics in the past half-century, through the work of such philosophers as G. E. M. Anscombe, Philippa Foot, Alasdair Macintyre, and Rosalind Hursthouse.

He has recorded duets with noted Scottish fiddler Alasdair Fraser as well as recently releasing an album with bassist Alain Genty, entitled Singing Sands.

Other notable music venues are The Dukes, The Grand Theatre, The Gregson Centre, The Bobbin and The Yorkshire House which since 2006 has hosted such acts as John Renbourn, Polly Paulusma, Marissa Nadler, Baby Dee, Diane Cluck, Alasdair Roberts and 2008 Mercury Prize nominees Rachel Unthank and the Winterset.

* Something Leather ( 1990 ) by Alasdair Gray has as its framing story an initiation into sadomasochistic activities by the female operators of a leather clothing shop in Glasgow.

Social critique has been further extended in the work of Michel Foucault and of Alasdair MacIntyre.

World in Action employed many leading journalists, among them John Pilger ; Michael Parkinson ; Gordon Burns ; Rob Rohrer ; Nick Davies, Ed Vulliamy and David Leigh of The Guardian ; Alasdair Palmer of the Sunday Telegraph ; John Ware, BBC Panoramas leading investigative reporter ; Anthony Wilson, whose second career as a music impresario was immortalised in the feature film 24 Hour Party People ; Michael Gillard, creator of the Slicker business pages in the satirical magazine Private Eye ; Donal MacIntyre ; the writer Mark Hollingsworth ; Quentin McDermott, since 1999 a leading investigative reporter for the Australian Broadcasting Corporation ; Tony Watson, editor of the Yorkshire Post for 13 years and editor-in-chief of the Press Association from December 2006 ; and Andrew Jennings, author of Lords of the Rings, who has campaigned vigorously for more than a decade against corruption in international sport.

Alasdair MacIntyre has written that " Almost alone among his contemporaries Fletcher understood the dilemma confronting Scotland as involving more radical alternatives than they were prepared to entertain ".

After being out of print for many decades, Lindsay's work has become increasingly available, and he is now seen as being perhaps the major Scottish fantasist of the 20th century, the missing link between George MacDonald and more modern writers such as Alasdair Gray who have also used surrealism and magic realism in their work.

Married 1981, Bridie Donalda Elspeth Cameron of the Black Isle and has issue: Caitriana Mary Alice ( born 1984 ), Alasdair John Cameron ( 1986 – 1988 ), Violet Elizabeth Helen ( born 1992 ), Jennie Alexandra Cameron ( born 1993 ) and Finlay Donald Cameron ( born 1998 ).

Predecessor culture is a sociological phrase originating in Alasdair MacIntyre's book, After Virtue, in which he considers society before the Enlightenment's project of rationalizing all things as having an internal consistency and meaning which has been lost to us.

With Alasdair Gray and James Kelman, he has been appointed Professor of Creative Writing at Glasgow University.

Sometimes known as ' Alasdair Mhic Colla Ghasda ', this Scots Gaelic waulking song has been recorded numerous times.

Birmingham Opera has a long history of collaboration with contemporary British composer Jonathan Dove, including commissioning and performing Dove's composition Life is a Dream in March 2012, an opera in three acts with the libretto written by Alasdair Middleton and based on the play of the same name by Pedro Calderón de la Barca.

It was withdrawn shortly before its scheduled transmission, it was listed in the Radio Times, because then Director of Television Programmes Alasdair Milne found it " nauseating " though " brilliantly made ".

Curran was more influenced by Mary Whitehouse and other moralists than Greene had been, and was Director-General when Dennis Potter's play Brimstone and Treacle was banned in 1976 ( although the decision to ban the play was ironically made by the more Left-leaning Alasdair Milne ).

In 1981, he was replaced as controller of BBC One by Alan Hart ( television executive ) and made the BBC's deputy managing director of television under Alasdair Milne.

Although Montrose intended to strike into England to aid the King's cause there, the Highlanders under Alasdair MacColla who made up most of Montrose's infantry refused to go any further south leaving their traditional foes, the Campbells, in their rear.

According to legend, when they first met Alasdair did not recognise the prince, who had arrived in disguise, and made free with him until a warning glance of a fellow MacDonald clansman revealed to him the prominence of the person in his company.

Like his father, Colla, Alasdair made his name as a soldier, being particularly noted for his use of a Scots broadsword called the claymore.

The company's name derives from negative references made in the mid-1980s, by then BBC Director-General Alasdair Milne and in the title of a book by Financial Times journalist Chris Dunkley, to " wall-to-wall Dallas " as a possible aftereffect of the coming deregulation of UK broadcasting.