The age of manipulation
"...the social chaos we see around us resulted
from the shattering in the eighteenth century
of the coherent system of moral understanding
that originated with Aristotle.
What was torpedoed in modern notions of the self,
McIntyre thinks, was the notion of a 'telos',
the idea that the point of individual existence
was a well-lived life
- a life devoted to a transcendent good."