Alasdair MacIntyre Philosopher

Alasdair Chalmers MacIntyre (born 1929) is a Scottish philosopher primarily known for his contribution to moral and political philosophy but known also for his work in history of philosophy and theology. He is Senior Research Fellow at the Centre for Contemporary Aristotelian Studies in Ethics and Politics (CASEP) at London Metropolitan University, and an Emeritus Professor of Philosophy at the University of Notre Dame. During his lengthy academic career, he also taught at Brandeis University, Duke University, Vanderbilt University, and Boston University. Macintyre's After Virtue (1981) is widely recognised as one of the most important works of Anglophone political philosophy in the 20th century.

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Birth date	January 12, 1929
Birth place	Scotland , Glasgow
Main interest	Ethics Meta-ethics Political philosophy History of ethics

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influenced	Postliberal theology Radical Orthodoxy Stanley Hauerwas
influenced by	Aristotle Augustine of Hippo Friedrich Nietzsche Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel Karl Marx Søren Kierkegaard R. G. Collingwood Thomas Aquinas Edith Stein Imre Lakatos John Henry Newman Thomas Kuhn
notable idea	Virtue ethics
philosophical school	Thomism Analytic philosophy
region	Western philosophy