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 ...

CNA Staff, May 23, 2025 / 16:30 pm Alasdair MacIntyre, a towering figure in moral philosophy and a Catholic convert credited with reviving the discipline of virtue ethics, died on May 21 at age 96.

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 ...

Late last month, Alasdair MacIntyre passed away at the age of 96. Best known for his book After Virtue, he was one of the most significant moral philosophers of our time.

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 ...

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 ...

Liberalism Books & the Arts May 15/22, 2023, Issue Liberalism’s Two Sides Alasdair MacIntyre and Richard Rorty’s lifelong argument. George Scialabba May 2, 2023 ...

On May 21, philosopher Alasdair MacIntyre passed away in South Bend, Indiana at the age of 96. The Glasgow, Scotland native is remembered for his views on moral and political philosophy as well as ...

Alasdair Chalmers MacIntyre, a philosopher renowned for his study of virtue-based ethics, and his work across the disciplines of philosophy, theology and politics, died May 21 at age 96.