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MacIntyre, Alasdair (1929–)

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List of works

  • MacIntyre, A. (1977) ‘Epistemological Crises, Dramatic Narrative, and the Philosophy of Science’, The Monist 60: 433–472.

    (An indispensable guide to MacIntyre’s early methodology.)

  • MacIntyre, A. (1981) After Virtue: A Study in Moral Theory, London: Duckworth, 2nd edn, with Postscript, 1985.

    (Clearest statement of the whole project and the account of virtue and the good life. Postscript is a valuable clarification.)

  • MacIntyre, A. (1984) ‘The Relationship of Philosophy to Its Past’, in R. Rorty, J.B. Schneewind, Q. Skinner (eds) Philosophy in History, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

    (Further methodological reflections on the creative synthesis envisaged between philosophy and history.)

  • MacIntyre, A. (1985) ‘Relativism, Power, and Philosophy’, Proceedings and Addresses of the American Philosophical Association, Newark, DE: American Philosophical Association, 5–22.

    (Argues for a principled distinction between the disagreement internal to, and between, traditions. Contests the challenge to this view from Donald Davidson’s views on language and translation.)

  • MacIntyre, A. (1988) Whose Justice? Which Rationality?, London: Duckworth.

  • MacIntyre, A. (1990) Three Rival Versions of Moral Enquiry, London: Duckworth.

    (A return to more methodological reflections, contrasting MacIntyre’s methodology with that of post-Enlightenment political rationalism and Nietzschean genealogy.)

References and further reading

  • Horton, R. and Mendus, S. (1994) After MacIntyre, Cambridge: Polity Press.

    (Multi-author collection of critical essays on MacIntyre’s work. Also contains an invaluable reply from MacIntyre clarifying several misunderstandings of his project. Valuable bibliography of MacIntyre’s published work.)

  • Larmore, C. (1987) Patterns of Moral Complexity, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press.

    (Contains an extended discussion of MacIntyre’s project, and criticizes both MacIntyre’s epistemological foundationalism and political romanticism. The latter claim should be balanced by a reading of MacIntyre’s ‘Reply’ in the Horton and Mendus volume.)

  • O’Neill, O. (1989) ‘Kant After Virtue’, in Constructions of Reason, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

    (A criticism of MacIntyre’s reading of Kant, typical of corrections of MacIntyre’s treatment of individual figures. Also contains a valuable discussion of MacIntyre’s attitude to modernity.)

  • Schneewind, J.B. (1982) ‘Virtue, Narrative and Community: MacIntyre and Morality’, Journal of Philosophy 79: 653–663.

    (Schneewind’s papers are critical but constructive, and suggest the outlines of Schneewind’s alternative narrative of the moral philosophy of the modern period.)

  • Schneewind, J.B. (1983) ‘Moral Crisis and the History of Ethics’, Midwest Studies in Philosophy, 8: 525–539.

    (See Schneewind (1982) above.)

  • Taylor, C. (1989) Sources of the Self, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

    (A magisterial survey of the historical development of the modern moral identity, indebted to MacIntyre for its general methodology, but very different in its assessment of modern moral philosophy and its resources. An optimistic work which is an essential counterweight to MacIntyre’s views.)

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