Alasdair MacIntyre… Would Have Signed The Paris Document
By JUDE DOUGHERTY With the publication of After Virtue in 1981, Alasdair MacIntyre set the parameters for a philosophical debate that was to last for decades. As if his point had not been well made, he followed that book with two others, Whose Justice, Which Rationality? and Three Rival Versions of Moral Inquiry. With the first of these volumes (now in its third edition), McIntyre succeeded in bringing moral discourse back to earth from the abstract, idealized realm inhabited by philosophers in the English-speaking world who limited themselves to analysis of language and formal arguments, or invented imaginary situations that presumably gave direction to affairs in the real world. In After Virtue, MacIntyre observes and documents that philosophers trained in…Continue Reading