ABSTRACT
This chapter explains why Alasdair MacIntyre's pessimism about moral philosophy is overstated. It illustrates why a lack of epistemological consensus among philosophers is not in and of itself particularly problematic, by showing how MacIntyre's triadic relationship among narrative, practice, and tradition can be utilized in a university setting. Many universities have schools of teaching, law, and medicine, and this is evidence in and of itself that a practical consensus already exists over the internal goods of education, justice, and health care. A MacIntyre-shaped approach to a university education can therefore build on this teleological agreement to show how a practice-based education might be implemented in a Catholic university setting. The teleological link between human beings and the practices that they engage themselves in is particularly important in a Catholic university. Medical schools everywhere ought to hold in common the internal goods of the practice of medicine.
