Walter wrote
P.S. On practices: A. MacIntyre is essential reading. (Although he's a kind ofThomist of late, not a Kantian.:)
I was about to recommend MacIntyre myself. His notion of practices is clear and cogent and requires no familiarity with mid-80s jargon. The book is /After Virtue/. MacIntyre may have become 'a kind of Thomist,' but nothing he says about practices would indicate that.
Robert Paul