Editing Alasdair MacIntyre (section)

{{Short description|Scottish philosopher (1929–2025)}}
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{{Infobox academic
| name = Alasdair MacIntyre
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| caption = MacIntyre in 2009
| birth_name = Alasdair Chalmers MacIntyre
| birth_date = {{birth date|1929|01|12|df=y}}
| birth_place = [[Glasgow]], Scotland
| death_date = {{death date and age|2025|05|21|1929|01|12|df=y}}
| death_place = 
| spouse = {{ubl | {{marriage|Ann Peri|1953|1963|end=div}} | {{marriage|Susan Margery Willans|1963|1977|end=div}} | {{marriage|Lynn Sumida Joy|1977|2025|end=died}}}}
| awards = <!--notable national-level awards only-->
| alma_mater = {{ubl | [[Queen Mary, University of London|Queen Mary College, London]] | [[Victoria University of Manchester|University of Manchester]] | [[University of Oxford]]}}
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| school_tradition = {{hlist | [[Analytic philosophy]] | [[Aristotelianism]] | [[aretaic turn]] | [[communitarianism]] | [[Thomism]]}}
| doctoral_advisor = 
| academic_advisors = [[Dorothy Emmet]]
| influences = {{flatlist|
* [[G.&nbsp;E.&nbsp;M. Anscombe]]
* [[Aristotle]]
* [[Augustine]]
* [[Karl Barth]]
* [[R.&nbsp;G. Collingwood]]
* [[G.&nbsp;W.&nbsp;F. Hegel]]
* [[Søren Kierkegaard]]
* [[Thomas Kuhn]]
* [[Imre Lakatos]]
* [[Karl Marx]]
* [[Albert Murray (writer)|Albert Murray]]
* [[John Henry Newman]]
* [[Friedrich Nietzsche]]
* [[Edith Stein]]
* [[Thomas Aquinas]]
* [[Ludwig Wittgenstein]]
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| discipline = Philosophy
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| workplaces = {{ubl | [[Brandeis University]] | [[Boston University]] | [[Wellesley College]] | [[Vanderbilt University]] | [[University of Notre Dame]] | [[Duke University]]}}
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| main_interests = {{hlist | Ethics | [[metaethics]] | [[history of ethics]] | [[social philosophy]] | [[political philosophy]]}}
| notable_works = {{ubl | ''[[After Virtue]]'' (1981) | ''[[Whose Justice? Which Rationality?]]'' (1988)}}
| notable_ideas = {{hlist | Revival of [[virtue ethics]] | internal and external goods | rationality of traditions | [[predecessor culture]]}}
| influenced = {{flatlist|
* [[Edward Feser]]
* [[Stanley Hauerwas]]
* [[postliberal theology]]
* [[radical orthodoxy]]
* [[Christian Smith (sociologist)|Christian Smith]]<ref>{{cite web |title=Christian Smith |url=https://sites.nd.edu/science-of-generosity/researchers/christian-smith/ |website=Science of Generosity |location=Notre Dame, Indiana |publisher=University of Notre Dame |access-date=May 29, 2019}}</ref>
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'''Alasdair Chalmers MacIntyre'''{{efn|Pronounced {{IPAc-en|ˈ|æ|l|ə|s|t|ər|_|ˈ|m|æ|k|ɪ|n|t|aɪər}}.}} (12 January 1929 – 21 May 2025) was a Scottish-American philosopher who contributed to [[moral philosophy|moral]] and [[political philosophy]] as well as [[history of philosophy]] and theology.<ref>Kelvin Knight, ''The MacIntyre Reader'', Notre Dame Press, 1998, "Interview with Giovanna Borradori," 255–256.</ref> MacIntyre's ''[[After Virtue]]'' (1981) is one of the most important works of Anglophone moral and political philosophy in the 20th century.<ref>Lackey, 1999, "What Are the Modern Classics? The Baruch Poll of Great Philosophy in the Twentieth Century", ''The Philosophical Forum'', Vol. 30, Issue 4.</ref> He was a senior research fellow at the Centre for Contemporary 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 de Nicola Center for Ethics and Culture.<ref name = fellows>{{Citation | title = Research fellows | publisher = Notre Dame Center for Ethics and Culture | url = http://ethicscenter.nd.edu/people/fellows/research/ | access-date = 21 May 2016 | archive-date = 7 January 2018 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20180107174512/http://ethicscenter.nd.edu/people/fellows/research/ | url-status = dead }}.</ref> During his lengthy academic career, he also taught at [[Brandeis University]], [[Duke University]], [[Vanderbilt University]], and [[Boston University]].