Alasdair MacIntyre
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MacIntyre was a moral and political philosopher whose After Virtue (1981) is one of the most important works of 20th-century English-language moral philosophy.
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7 facts on wiqqi (opens wiqqi.app)
- Born: 12 Jan 1929, Glasgow (opens wiqqi.app)
- Died: 21 May 2025, South Bend, Indiana, aged 96 (opens wiqqi.app)
- Education: Queen Mary College, London; MA, University of Manchester; Oxford (opens wiqqi.app)
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4 beliefs on korrents (opens korrents.com)
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Contemporary moral debate is marked by disagreements that never end (opens korrents.com)
“The most striking feature of contemporary moral utterance is that so much of it is used to express disagreements; and the most striking feature of the debates in which these disagreements are expressed is their…”
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We need local communities that can sustain moral and intellectual life through a new dark age (opens korrents.com)
“What matters at this stage is the construction of local forms of community within which civility and the intellectual and moral life can be sustained through the new dark ages which are already upon us.”
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The barbarians are not at the frontiers; they have been governing us for some time (opens korrents.com)
“This time however the barbarians are not waiting beyond the frontiers; they have already been governing us for quite some time.”
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Contemporary moral debate is marked by disagreements that never end (opens korrents.com)