Sometime in the mid-Eighties, not long after he published the seminal text of post-liberal philosophy After Virtue: A Study in Moral Theory, Alasdair MacIntyre and I had lunch in Oxford. I asked him whether there was a contemporary example of a society that was not corroded by individualism. “Rajasthan,” he replied. I was unpersuaded. A society like that he imagined in north-west India, in which individuals were embedded in an all-encompassing social order, has not existed in Western countries for centuries, if ever. After finishing our meal, we walked over to Wadham and sat together on a bench under a...
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