Alasdair MacIntyre
Scottish philosopher whose After Virtue argued that modern moral philosophy has lost the Aristotelian teleological framework that gives ethics coherence. He proposed virtue ethics as an alternative to both Kantian deontology and Benthamite utilitarianism. He converted to Catholicism in 1983.
Works
- After VirtueHistory of ethics and argument for virtue over modern rationalist moral theories
- Whose Justice? Which Rationality?Philosophical account of justice and rationality across different intellectual traditions
- Three Rival Versions of Moral EnquiryComparison of three approaches to moral inquiry: encyclopedic, genealogical, and Augustinian
- Against the Self-Images of the AgeEssays critiquing the self-understanding of modern Western intellectual culture
- Dependent Rational AnimalsArgument that human flourishing requires interdependence, not rational autonomy