On May 21, philosopher Alasdair MacIntyre passed away in South Bend, Indiana at the age of 96. The Glasgow, Scotland native ...

Worse, people are unschooled in the virtues that are practical tools for leading a good life: honesty, fidelity, compassion, ...

Alasdair Macintyre in 1990. His quest to prove there was an objective foundation to moral virtue was a lonely project, but it drew a large, varied and growing crowd of admirers.

When Alasdair MacIntyre sat down to write After Virtue in 1981, he didn’t just pen a book — he launched a philosophical rebellion. The Scottish American thinker, who died on May 21 at 96 in ...

When Alasdair MacIntyre sat down to write After Virtue in 1981, he didn’t just pen a book — he launched a philosophical rebellion. The Scottish American thinker, who died on May 21 at 96 in ...

Alasdair Chalmers MacIntyre, a philosopher renowned for his study of virtue-based ethics, and his work across the disciplines of philosophy, theology and politics, died May 21 at age 96.

Late last month, Alasdair MacIntyre passed away at the age of 96. Best known for his book After Virtue, he was one of the most significant moral philosophers of our time.Over the course of a ...

I still remember the first time I read Alasdair MacIntyre’s After Virtue. I was a graduate student in religious ethics at Yale, and someone, perhaps my advisor, suggested that I take a look at it. As ...

Alasdair Chalmers MacIntyre was 96. Normally classified as a philosopher of ethics, MacIntyre was a fierce critic of modern ethical theory. His writings drew deeply from a wide array of fields, ...