Professor Alasdair MacIntyre, who has died aged 96, was one of the most important philosophers in the Anglophone world; he was best-known for his 1981 book After Virtue, an excoriating analysis of ...

I still remember the first time I read Alasdair MacIntyre’s After Virtue. I was a graduate student in religious ethics at Yale, and someone, perhaps my advisor, suggested that I take a look at it. As ...

Alasdair MacIntyre, a philosopher who metamorphosed from a London Marxist into a Midwestern American Catholic during a decadeslong quest to prove there was an objective foundation to moral virtue ...

Alasdair MacIntyre has had an unusual trajectory. Born in Glasgow to a middle-class family, he grew up in London and attended the University of Manchester and, later, Oxford.

According to Alasdair MacIntyre, contemporary moral philosophy is in crisis.Widespread disagreements in everyday practice about questions such as social justice, abortion,euthanasia, and the nature of ...

In 1988, Scottish philosopher, Alasdair MacIntyre published a book titled “Whose Justice? Which Rationality?” In this book, MacIntyre argued that human rationality is grounded in some ...

Alasdair MacIntyre again denounces 'The Benedict Option' -- a book he has not read -- seemingly because it is an idea that appeals to conservatives Rod Dreher Nov 11, 2022 5:19 AM ...

Alasdair MacIntyre: An Intellectual Biography, by the philosopher Émile Perreau-Saussine, is less an academic study than an essay on MacIntyrean themes. Though at times derivative and a little ...