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Alasdair MacIntyre
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Scottish-American philosopher (1929–2025)
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Alasdair Chalmers MacIntyre (1929–2025) was a male philosopher and university teacher. He held citizenship in the United States and the United Kingdom. His professional career included teaching positions at the University of Essex, Brandeis University, the University of Notre Dame, and Duke University. He was educated at the University of Manchester and Queen Mary University of London.
MacIntyre’s field of work encompassed ethics, metaethics, political philosophy, and philosophy. His notable works include *After Virtue*, *The religious significance of atheism*, *Religious Significance of Atheism*, *Dios, filosofía, universidades*, *Difficulties in Christian belief*, and *Against the self-images of the age*. He received a Guggenheim Fellowship and was a member of the American Philosophical Society and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
He was a member of the Socialist Workers Party and identified with the Catholic Church. He spoke English. MacIntyre worked in Scotland and died in South Bend.
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Person · Open Library
- Born
- 1929
- Works
- 131
Top works
- The religious significance of atheism
- Religious Significance of Atheism
- Dios, filosofía, universidades
- Difficulties in Christian belief
- Against the self-images of the age
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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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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- United States
- 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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- date of birth
- 1929-01-12
- member of
- American Philosophical Society
- Commons category
- Alasdair MacIntyre
- birth name
- Alasdair Chalmers MacIntyre
- date of death
- 2025-05-21
- name in native language
- Alasdair MacIntyre.
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Encyclopedic overview
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