What Alasdair MacIntyre got right – and wrong

Alasdair MacIntyre retains his power to shock

Reading After Virtue as a student was a revelation. As his colleague, I continued to learn from...

What Alasdair MacIntyre got right – and wrong

Alasdair MacIntyre, who died last week, was one of the most influential thinkers of the past 50 years. It is hard to think of any other philosopher writing in the late 20th-century who has had such an impact. He might be less famous than Foucault or Derrida, but it is his conservative brand of postmodernism

Had he listened more to his colleagues Elisabeth Anscombe and Philippa Foot: The philosopher Alasdaire MacIntrye wanted to break through the wall of enlightenment with virtue ethics. Now he died at the age of 96.

MacIntyre repeatedly argues for community, for transcendent purposefulness, drawing the horizon of salvation as the ultimate context in view of which personal and communal life can be meaningfully shaped. Commemoration of Balázs Mezei.