ABSTRACT
The concepts of Revolutionary Aristotelianism reunite historical fact and value. That is, they represent forms of Marx’s free labor. Practices are activities through which agents unite fact and value by transforming their desires in actions that expand their human powers. Internal goods are essential to this unity. This chapter examines cooking in detail as an example of MacIntyrean practice paying attention to the internal goods. The narrative unity of life unites fact and value by linking the transformation of the individual’s desires to a quest for the good lived through the various practices in which she engages. Traditions, in turn, comprise the locus of arguments over the nature of desire, practice, and the moral good. Through practices, the narrative quest, and tradition, agents identify their species-being powers and seek to cultivate and expand them. Such agency is impossible, or at least quite limited, under conditions of capitalism.
