He can claim connections with a trio of 20th-century intellectual heavyweights: the late Elizabeth Anscombe, her surviving husband, Peter Geach, and the Canadian philosopher Charles Taylor, winner in 2007 of the Templeton prize. He has lambasted the heirs to the principal western ethical schools: John Locke’s social contract, Immanuel Kant’s categorical imperative, Jeremy Bentham’s utilitarian “the greatest happiness for the greatest number.” Yet his is not a lone voice in the wilderness.

MacIntyre has often given the impression of a robe-ripping Savonarola. Blending ideas from ancient Greece and medieval Christendom (with an admixture of Marxism), MacIntyre writes and lectures on the failings and discontents of “advanced modernity.” This summer he accepted an invitation from Prospect and Jesus College, Cambridge to talk to a group of academics on the economic disaster that capitalism has inflicted on itself and the world. He has written 30 books on ethics and held a variety of professorial chairs over the past four decades in North America. Self-effacing, a trifle austere, he nevertheless exudes a benign humanity from the top of his monkish haircut to his scuffed toe-caps.Īlasdair MacIntyre is one of the world’s most influential living moral philosophers. We’re dining in the elegant ambience of the Cambridge Catholic university chaplaincy the conversation is animated, but the man, an 81-year-old philosopher, contents himself with a glass of water, leaving the dishes and vintage claret untouched. The man in a modest dark suit and grey shirt could be mistaken, save for the presence of his wife of 33 years, for an off-duty Benedictine abbot. (Accessed 2 June 2019).Alasdair MacIntyre argues for a single, shared view of the good life Virtue ethics “in practice”: An exposition on and defence of Alasdair MacIntyre’s theory of practices in after virtue. Journal of Business Ethics, 147, 735–746.

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