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Alasdair MacIntyre

Born

in Glasgow, Scotland, The United Kingdom

January 12, 1929

Died

May 22, 2025

Genre

Philosophy, Politics

Influences

Aristotle, Augustine of Hippo, Thomas Aquinas, G.E.M. Anscombe ...more

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Alasdair Chalmers MacIntyre was a British-American philosopher who contributed to moral and political philosophy as well as history of philosophy and theology. MacIntyre's After Virtue (1981) is one of the most important works of Anglophone moral and political philosophy in the 20th century. He was senior research fellow at the Centre for Contemporary Aristotelian Studies in Ethics and Politics (CASEP) at London Metropolitan University, emeritus Professor of Philosophy at the University of Notre Dame, and permanent senior distinguished research fellow at the Notre Dame Center for Ethics and Culture. During his lengthy academic career, he also taught at Brandeis University, Duke University, Vanderbilt University, and Boston University. ...more

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Average rating: 4.14 · 9,837 ratings · 1,020 reviews · 82 distinct works • Similar authors

	After Virtue 4.18 avg rating — 6,688 ratings — published 1982 — 76 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	A Short History of Ethics: A History of Moral Philosophy from the Homeric Age to the Twentieth Century 3.83 avg rating — 694 ratings — published 1966 — 58 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Dependent Rational Animals: Why Human Beings Need the Virtues 4.08 avg rating — 519 ratings — published 1999	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Whose Justice? Which Rationality? 4.23 avg rating — 411 ratings — published 1988 — 14 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Three Rival Versions of Moral Inquiry: Encyclopedia, Genealogy, and Tradition 4.23 avg rating — 281 ratings — published 1990 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	God, Philosophy, Universities: A Selective History of the Catholic Philosophical Tradition 4.20 avg rating — 191 ratings — published 2009 — 18 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Ethics in the Conflicts of Modernity: An Essay on Desire, Practical Reasoning, and Narrative 4.39 avg rating — 150 ratings — published 2016 — 8 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Marxism and Christianity 3.74 avg rating — 155 ratings — published 1971 — 12 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Edith Stein: A Philosophical Prologue, 1913-1922 4.39 avg rating — 64 ratings — published 2005 — 16 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Herbert Marcuse 3.26 avg rating — 82 ratings — published 1970 — 10 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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“At the foundation of moral thinking lie beliefs in statements the truth of which no further reason can be given.”
― Alasdair C. MacIntyre, After Virtue

tags: belief, morality, truth

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“Imprisoning philosophy within the professionalizations and specializations of an institutionalized curriculum, after the manner of our contemporary European and North American culture, is arguably a good deal more effective in neutralizing its effects than either religious censorship or political terror”
― Alasdair C. MacIntyre, Edith Stein: A Philosophical Prologue, 1913-1922

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“Charles II once invited the members of the Royal Society to explain to him why a dead fish weighs more than the same fish alive; a number of subtle explanations were offered to him. He then pointed out that it does not.”
― Alasdair MacIntyre

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