Alasdair MacIntyre

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5 total works indexed

1. The FAIR Guiding Principles for scientific data management and stewardship

   · 2016 · cited 13,797x

2. Standardisation of spirometry

   · 2005 · cited 12,638x

3. Global and regional mortality from 235 causes of death for 20 age groups in 1990 and 2010: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2010

   · 2012 · cited 10,738x

4. Developing and evaluating complex interventions: the new Medical Research Council guidance

   · 2008 · cited 6,860x

5. Disability-adjusted life years (DALYs) for 291 diseases and injuries in 21 regions, 1990–2010: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2010

   · 2012 · cited 6,787x

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Quotes

• “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”
• “A striking feature of moral and political argument in the modern world is the extent to which it is innovators, radicals, and revolutionaries who revive old doctrines, while their conservative and reactionary opponents are the inventors of new ones.”
• “Raymond Aron ascribes to Weber the view that ‘each man’s conscience is irrefutable.’ … while [Weber] holds that an agent may be more or less rational in acting consistently with his values, the choice of any one particular evaluative stance or commitment can be no more rational than any other. All faiths and all evaluations are equally non-rational...”
• “In The Triumph of the Therapeutic (1966) and also in To My Fellow Teachers (1975) Philip Rieff has documented with devastating insight a number of the ways in which truth has been displaced as a value and replaced by psychological effectiveness. The idioms of therapy have invaded all too successfully such spheres as those of education and of religion.”
• “I have confronted theoretical positions whose protagonists claim that what I take to be historically produced characteristics of what is specifically modern are in fact the timelessly necessary characteristics of all and any moral judgment, of all and any selfhood.”
• “There ought not be two histories, one of political and moral action and one of political and moral theorizing, because there were not two pasts, one populated only by actions, the other only by theories. Every action is the bearer and expression of more or less theory-laden beliefs and concepts; every piece of theorizing and every expression of belief is a politcal and moral action.”

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Key facts

Born

Alasdair Chalmers MacIntyre , ( 1929-01-12 ) 12 January 1929, Glasgow , Scotland

Died

21 May 2025 (2025-05-21) (aged 96), South Bend, Indiana , US

Spouses

Ann Peri ​ ​ ( married</span>"}]]}'>m. 1953 ; divorced</span>"}]]}'>div. 1963 ) ​ Susan Margery Willans ​ ​ ( married</span>"}]]}'>m. 1963 ; divorced</span>"}]]}'>div. 1977 ) ​ Lynn Sumida Joy ​ ​ ( married</span>"}]]}'>m. 1977 ; died 2025 ) ​

Alma mater

Queen Mary College, London University of Manchester University of Oxford

Academic advisor

Dorothy Emmet

Influences

G. E. M. Anscombe Aristotle Augustine Karl Barth R. G. Collingwood G. W. F. Hegel Søren Kierkegaard Thomas Kuhn Imre Lakatos Karl Marx Albert Murray John Henry Newman Friedrich Nietzsche Edith Stein Thomas Aquinas Ludwig Wittgenstein

Discipline

Philosophy

School or tradition

Analytic philosophy Aristotelianism aretaic turn communitarianism Thomism

Institutions

Brandeis University Boston University Wellesley College Vanderbilt University University of Notre Dame Duke University

Main interests

Ethics metaethics history of ethics social philosophy political philosophy

Notable works

After Virtue (1981) Whose Justice? Which Rationality? (1988)

Notable ideas

Revival of virtue ethics internal and external goods rationality of traditions predecessor culture

Influenced

Edward Feser Stanley Hauerwas postliberal theology radical orthodoxy Christian Smith

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Key dates

Born

12 January 1929

Died

21 May 2025

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Wikidata facts

Instance of

human

Gender

male

Citizenship

United Kingdom

Place of birth

United Kingdom

Place of death

South Bend

Occupation

university teacher

Employer

London Metropolitan University

Political party

Socialist Workers Party

Languages spoken

English language

Religion

Catholic Church

Notable work

After Virtue

Image

Alasdair MacIntyre.jpg

Work location

Scotland

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