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Alasdair C. MacIntyre

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born

January 12, 1929 in Glasgow, Scotland

gender

male

genre

Philosophy, Politics

influences

St. Augustine, Rawls, Aquinas, Anscombe

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Alasdair Chalmers MacIntyre is a leading philosopher primarily known for his contribution to moral and political philosophy but known also for his work in history of philosophy and theology. He is the O'Brien Senior Research Professor of Philosophy at the University of Notre Dame.

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Average rating: 4.04 · 1,056 ratings · 99 reviews · 22 distinct works

	After Virtue: A Study in Moral Theory by Alasdair C. MacIntyre, Alasdair Mac Intyre 4.11 avg rating — 686 ratings — published 1981 — 14 editions	My rating:
	Whose Justice Which Rationality 4.09 avg rating — 89 ratings — 3 editions	My rating:
	Dependent Rational Animals: Why Human Beings Need the Virtues 3.79 avg rating — 73 ratings — published 2001 — 6 editions	My rating:
	Three Rival Versions of Moral Inquiry: Encyclopedia, Genealogy, and Tradition 3.88 avg rating — 48 ratings — published 1990 — 3 editions	My rating:
	A Short History Of Ethics: A History Of Moral Philosophy From The Homeric Age To The Twentieth Century 3.84 avg rating — 57 ratings — published 1966 — 10 editions	My rating:
	God, Philosophy, Universities: A Selective History of the Catholic Philosophical Tradition 4.20 avg rating — 20 ratings — 5 editions	My rating:
	Marxism and Christianity 3.70 avg rating — 10 ratings — published 1988 — 5 editions	My rating:
	Edith Stein: A Philosophical Prologue, 1913-1922 4.60 avg rating — 5 ratings — published 2005 — 2 editions	My rating:
	Ethics and Politics: Selected Essays, Volume 2 4.17 avg rating — 6 ratings — published 2006 — 2 editions	My rating:
	The Religious Significance of Atheism by Alasdair C. MacIntyre, Paul Ricoeur 3.33 avg rating — 6 ratings — 4 editions	My rating:

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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 C. MacIntyre