Editing Alasdair MacIntyre (section)

==Religion==
MacIntyre converted to [[Catholic Church|Catholicism]] in the early 1980s,<ref>Brian Davies reports that McIntyre said: "McCabe played a key part in his own acceptance of the Catholic faith", in: Brian Davies, ''Introduction'', in ''The McCabe Reader'', Brian Davies and Paul Kucharski (eds.), New York-London, Bloomsbury T&T Clark, 2016, Kindle Edition, loc. 103-10.</ref> and subsequently conducted work against the background of what he calls an "[[Augustine of Hippo|Augustinian]] [[Thomism|Thomist]] approach to moral philosophy."<ref name= "Solomon">{{cite web | last = Solomon | first = David |url= http://home.comcast.net/~icuweb/c04309.htm |title= Lecture 9: After Virtue |access-date= 2007-07-02 |url-status=dead | work = Twentieth-century ethics | publisher = International Catholic University |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20100111063108/http://home.comcast.net/~icuweb/c04309.htm |archive-date= 11 January 2010 |df= dmy-all}}</ref> In an interview with ''[[Prospect (magazine)|Prospect]]'', MacIntyre explains that his conversion to Catholicism occurred in his fifties as a "result of being convinced of Thomism while attempting to disabuse his students of its authenticity."<ref>{{Citation | title = Alastair MacIntyre | date = November 2010 | newspaper = Prospect | url = http://www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/2010/10/alasdair-macintyre-on-money/ | access-date = 13 November 2010 | archive-date = 25 January 2011 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20110125084039/http://www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/2010/10/alasdair-macintyre-on-money/ | url-status = dead }}.</ref> Also, in his book ''Whose Justice, Which Rationality?'' there is a section towards the end that is perhaps autobiographical when he explains how one is chosen by a tradition and may reflect his own conversion to Catholicism.<ref>''Whose Justice, Which Rationality?'' 1988, pp. 393–95.</ref>

Fuller accounts of MacIntyre's view of the relationship between philosophy and religion in general and Thomism and Catholicism in particular can be found in his essays "Philosophy recalled to its tasks" and "Truth as a good" (both found in the collection ''The Tasks of Philosophy'') as well as in the survey of the Catholic philosophical tradition he gives in ''God, Philosophy and Universities''.<ref>''The Tasks of Philosophy: Selected Essays, Vol. 1'' (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2006); ''God, Philosophy and Universities'' (Plymouth, UK: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 2009)</ref>