* Alasdair Maclean of the Clientele discusses the band's history and details new album Bonfires on the Heath

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.

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.

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.

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

* Alasdair Fraser ( born 1955 ), Scottish fiddler and owner of Culburnie Records

* The Scottish folk musician Alasdair Roberts sings of Ned Ludd in his song " Ned Ludd's Rant ( For World Rebarbarised )" on his 2009 album, Spoils.

* Alasdair Gray, Scottish author

Scottish Television retained its franchise at the first time of asking in 1967, despite strong competition from a consortium led by the future BBC Director General Alasdair Milne and strong indications that the company would lose its franchise.

James Alexander Stewart Stevenson ( invariably known as Stewart Stevenson ) ( Gaelic: Seamus Alasdair Stiùbhart MacSteafain ) ( born 1946 ) is a Scottish politician who became a Member of the Scottish Parliament in 2001.

Calum Alistair MacDonald or Calum Alasdair Domhnallach ( born 7 May 1956, Stornoway ) was Labour Member of Parliament ( MP ) for the Western Isles from 1987 until he was defeated by the Scottish National Party in the United Kingdom general election of 2005.

Alasdair Neil Morgan ( born 21 April 1945 ) is a Scottish politician.

Alasdair is the Scottish Gaelic spelling of the name, in origin the Gaelic form of the name Pen15 ( Greek Pen15 Pen15 ).

Alasdair is a Scottish Gaelic given name.

* Alasdair White ( Scottish musician )

Alasdair Chalmers MacIntyre ( born 1929 ) is a Scottish philosopher primarily known for his contribution to moral and political philosophy but known also for his work in history of philosophy and theology.

Lanark, subtitled A Life in Four Books, is the first novel of Scottish writer Alasdair Gray.

In 1751, Scottish Jacobite poet Alasdair MacMhaighstir Alasdair poked fun at the aisling genre in his Anti-Campbell polemic An Airce (" The Ark ").

A portrait by Sir Henry Raeburn of Colonel Alasdair Ranaldson MacDonell of Glengarry hangs in the National Gallery of Scotland ; it shows hanging from his belt on his right hand side a Highland Scottish dirk, and visible at the top of his right stocking what appears to be a nested set of two sgian-dubhs.

* 1644: Scottish Civil War started by the Scottish Royalist Montrose, with the aid of Irish Confederate troops under Alasdair MacColla, including the Scots-Irish forces serving under Manus O ' Cahan

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.

Culburnie Records is a California based record label specializing in Scottish traditional music, operated by Alasdair Fraser.

In the Scottish Parliament the town is within the Galloway and Upper Nithsdale constituency and the South of Scotland region and is represented by Alex Fergusson and Alasdair Morgan respectively.

Alasdair Alpin MacGregor ( 1899-1970 ) was a Scottish writer and photographer, known for a large number of travel books.

In 1770 the Scottish Gaelic poet Alasdair Mac Mhaighstir Alasdair died in Arisaig and was buried in the village's Roman Catholic cemetery.

In the Wars of 1644-47, the most prominent Royalist clan were Clan Donald led by Alasdair MacColla.

However, his natural genuflection to those in power ensured that his five years in charge of the BBC were generally very stable and secure for the organisation, in stark contrast to the subsequent director-generalship of Alasdair Milne.

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 ".

There were no schools in the area and so it is thought that the younger Alasdair was educated by his father, who was a graduate ( MA ) of the University of Glasgow, throughout his early years.

Alasdair followed in the footsteps of his father and attended the University of Glasgow, and the University of Edinburgh, at a time when Scottish songs were gaining huge popularity.

In the early 1970s she joined Philip Hobsbaum's writers ' group, a crucible of creative activity-other members were Alasdair Gray, James Kelman and Tom Leonard.

In fact, the popularity of such trends on the Left Bank was one reason why Goldmann's own name and work were eclipsed-this despite the acclaim of thinkers as diverse as Jean Piaget and Alasdair MacIntyre, who called him " the finest and most intelligent Marxist of the age.

Among the party's candidates were future MPs Eddie McGrady and Alasdair McDonnell.

Alexander I ( c. 1078 – 23 April 1124 ), also called Alaxandair mac Maíl Coluim ( Modern Gaelic: Alasdair mac Mhaol Chaluim ) and nicknamed " The Fierce ", was King of the Scots from 1107 to his death.

Alexander II ( Mediaeval Gaelic: Alaxandair mac Uilliam ; Modern Gaelic: Alasdair mac Uilleim ) ( 24 August 1198 – 6 July 1249 ) was King of Scots from

Alexander III ( Medieval Gaelic: Alaxandair mac Alaxandair ; Modern Gaelic: Alasdair mac Alasdair ) ( 4 September 1241 – 19 March 1286 ) was King of Scots from 1249 to his death.

The firm delisted from the Hong Kong Stock exchange ( Hang Seng Index ) in 1994 under the tenure of Alasdair Morrison and placed its primary listing in London and its secondary listing in Singapore.

Alexander, probably under pressure from his close kinsmen Donald Balloch, John Mór's son, and Alasdair Carrach of Lochaber, led a rebellion attacking the castle and burgh of Inverness in spring 1429.

Alasdair MacIntyre himself suggests that a person's purpose comes from their culture, making him a sort of Ethical relativist.

In 2009, Alasdair McDonnell demanded an apology from Donaldson and a retraction of his claim that Catholics owed allegiance in the first instance to the pope and the Vatican.

The forced departure of Director-General Alasdair Milne following pressure from the Thatcher government required someone at the top, preferably from outside the corporation, with editorial and production experience: Milne had been summarily replaced by Michael Checkland, an accountant.

* Alasdair Sinclair, a character from Emmerdale

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.

Sir Michael Checkland ( born 13 March 1936 ) was Director-General of the BBC from 1987 to 1992, being appointed after the forced resignation of Alasdair Milne.

Urquhart appears as the protagonist of Alasdair Gray's short story " Sir Thomas's Logopandocy " ( included in Unlikely Stories, Mostly ), the title taken from Urquhart's Logopandecteision and some of the material pastiching

The summit of Sgùrr Alasdair can be attained by a short detour ( from Sgùrr Theàrlaich ) off the main ridge by climbers undertaking the full traverse of the Cuillin ridge, or by those following the circuit of Coire Lagan.

Migrating Bird-The Songs of Lal Waterson ( 2007 ) is a tribute album, with contributions from James Yorkston, Alasdair Roberts, Willard Grant Conspiracy, Vashti Bunyan, Victoria Williams and others.

The following year, they changed their name to Allister, paying homage to Alasdair Gillis from the Canadian TV show You Can't Do That on Television.

Aware of the probable landing of Prince Charles Edward Stuart — " Bonnie Prince Charlie " — Alasdair hastened to join the prince upon his arrival at Loch nan Uamh from Eriskay.

The Irish sent 1500 men to Scotland under the command of Alasdair MacColla MacDonald, a MacDonald clansman from the Western Isles of Scotland.

He is commemorated in the Scottish Gaelic poetry of Iain Lom MacDonald and in Ireland by a piece of traditional music named Mac Colla's March or Alasdair Mac Colla that dates from the mid seventeenth century and is still performed.