Alasdair C. MacIntyre and Hans J. Morgenthau are two central figures in the intellectual history of the 20th century who are rarely mentioned together. Without denying the important differ-ences and the distance between the two, these article shows that they converge – partially yet importantly – both in their critique of contemporary morality and in some of the proposed so-lutions. Morgenthau and MacIntyre believed that the post-Enlightenment project of establishing rationalistically an objective and compelling standard of morality is doomed to fail. They also believe that, absent such framework, and given the rejection of pre-modern moral systems by central actors and institutions of modern societies, morality – and social life with it - are left in a Weberian/Nietzschean: de facto individualism, anarchism, and incoherence. The article con-cludes with an invitation of a further and systematic comparison: not only between MacIntyre and Morgenthau’s moral and social critique, but also between their once again converging, orig-inal stance on the epistemological status of the socio-political sciences.
