Alasdair MacIntyre

Alasdair MacIntyre was born in Glasgow, Scotland, in 1929. He studied classics in London and philosophy at Manchester and Oxford, and taught at several British universities. As a young man he was active in Marxist politics, and his early books examined Marxism, Christianity and the history of ethics. In 1970 he moved to the United States, where he taught at Brandeis, Boston University, Vanderbilt, Duke and, for many years, the University of Notre Dame. In 1981 he published After Virtue, which argued that modern moral debate is confused because it has lost the idea of the virtues found in Aristotle. The book helped start a revival of virtue ethics. Soon afterwards he became a Catholic, and in later books such as Whose Justice? Which Rationality? he joined Aristotle's ethics with the thought of Thomas Aquinas. He died in 2025 at the age of 96.

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Faith: Raised in Scotland; after a Marxist period he became a Roman Catholic in the early 1980s and wrote as a Thomist philosopher. Source: Wikipedia

See also: Aristotle · Thomas Aquinas