Alasdair MacIntyre, Philosopher Who Saw a ‘New Dark Ages,’ Dies at 96

Alasdair MacIntyre, Philosopher Who Saw a ‘New Dark Ages,’ Dies at 96

Alasdair MacIntyre, a philosopher who metamorphosed from a London Marxist into a Midwestern American Catholic during a decades-long quest to prove there was an objective foundation to moral virtue — a lonely project that struck many of his academic peers as anachronistic yet drew a large, varied and growing crowd of admirers — died on May 21. He was 96. His death was announced by the University of Notre Dame, where Mr. MacIntyre was a professor …

Remembering Alasdair MacIntyre - 3 Quarks Daily

Charles Mathewes in The Hedgehog Review: The first time I met Alasdair MacIntyre I was twenty-one, and he threatened to kill one of my classmates. Then he told us all that our attention to his work was “profoundly misbegotten.” It was the spring semester of 1991, my senior year at Georgetown University, and my capstone seminar was dedicated to reading everything the Scottish-born philosopher had written up to that point. (It was a lot.) At the e…

In Memoriam: Alasdair MacIntyre

I’ve made a point of meeting several of my heroes, but I never met Alasdair MacIntyre. The reviews were not encouraging. Back in 2011 when we were all fresh out of undergrad, some friends and I were starting Fare Forward, a magazine with Christian commitments and philosophical aspirations. Two of my colleagues arranged a meeting with MacIntyre, who was then recently emeritus at Notre Dame. They were exhausted from several long days and nights on…