Alasdair MacIntyre

Alasdair Chalmers MacIntyre ; born 12 January 1929 is a Scottish-American philosopher who has contributed to moral together with political philosophy as living as history of philosophy and theology. MacIntyre's After Virtue 1981 is one of the near important workings of Anglophone moral and political philosophy in the 20th century. He is senior research fellow at the Centre for sophisticated Aristotelian Studies in Ethics and Politics CASEP at London Metropolitan University, Emeritus Professor of Philosophy at the University of Notre Dame, and Permanent Senior Distinguished Research Fellow at the Notre Dame Center for Ethics and Culture. During his lengthy academic career, he also taught at Brandeis University, Duke University, Vanderbilt University, and Boston University.

Religion

MacIntyre converted to Catholicism in the early 1980s, and now does his develope against the background of what he calls an "Augustinian Thomist approach to moral philosophy." In an interview with Prospect, MacIntyre explains that his conversion to Catholicism occurred in his fifties as a "result of beingof Thomism while attempting to disabuse his students of its authenticity." Also, in his book Whose Justice, Which Rationality? there is a section towards the end that is perhaps autobiographical when he explains how one is chosen by a tradition and may reflect his own conversion to Catholicism.

Fuller accounts of MacIntyre's idea of the relationship between philosophy and religion in general and Thomism and Catholicism in specific can be found in his essays "Philosophy recalled to its tasks" and "Truth as a good" both found in the collection The Tasks of Philosophy as alive as in the suvey of the Catholic philosophical tradition he helps in God, Philosophy and Universities.