so much for nietzsche and aristotelian political science. mcintyre's third big error. he wrongly argues that liberalism, better to call it the modern tradition of freedom, repudiates or renders incoherent the moral virtues. so a few decades now inspired by mcintyre, i set out to write a book that more or less vindicated that thesis, that the liberal tradition repudiates or renders incoherent and account of moral virtue. before i began writing it in earnest, i undertook to do due diligence so i resolved to reread some major figures in this modern tradition of freedom to make sure there were no stray mentions of virtue here and there. and that i could establish that the liberal tradition was not only repudiated the virtues, but it was intrinsically incapable of giving an account. i started with hobbs, who seemed to me the easiest case, maybe not a liberal but a proto- liberal and he does talk about inalienable rights and does say government's job is to protect them. but he was known as the monster of mounds barry and he had a political theory based on a crude mechanistic