A Scottish philosopher who settled in the United States and died in 2025 at 96. In After Virtue, he diagnosed modern morality as a set of fragments with no possible agreement. He proposed recovering Aristotle's ethics of virtue, lived within communities and traditions that give meaning to our choices.
Core ideas
Modern moral debate is fragmented because it has lost a shared idea of the good
Virtues are learned in practices and communities with a shared history
We understand our lives as a narrative tied to a larger tradition
The tradition: Communitarian
Communitarianism criticizes liberal individualism and highlights the role of community and tradition in moral formation. MacIntyre is one of its central names, though he disliked the label.
