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497 Virtue ethics in the twentieth centuryIn Daniel C. Russell (ed.), The Cambridge companion to virtue ethics, Cambridge University Press. 2013.
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9Virtue ethics and contemporary Aristotelianism: modernity, conflict and politics (edited book)Bloomsbury Academic. 2020.This compelling and distinctive volume advances Aristotelianism by bringing its traditional virtue ethics to bear upon characteristically modern issues, such as the politics of economic power and egalitarian dispute. Clearly divided into three parts and featuring a contribution from Alasdair MacIntyre, this volume bridges the gap between Aristotle's philosophy and the multitude of contemporary Aristotelian theories that have been formulated in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. Part I dra…Read more
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29Virtue and politics: Alasdair MacIntyre's revolutionary Aristotelianism (edited book)University of Notre Dame Press. 2011.The essays in this collection explore the implications of Alasdair MacIntyre's critique of liberalism, capitalism, and the modern state, his early Marxism, and the complex influences of Marxist ideas on his thought. A central idea is that MacIntyre's political and social theory is a form of revolutionary--not reactionary--Aristotelianism. The contributors aim, in varying degrees, both to engage with the theoretical issues of MacIntyre's critique and to extend and deepen his insights. The book fe…Read more
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After virtue : Nietzsche or Aristotle, institutions and practicesIn Tom Angier (ed.), MacIntyre's After Virtue at 40, Cambridge University Press. 2023.
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47Virtue Ethics and Contemporary Aristotelianism: Modernity, Conflict and Politics (edited book, 2nd ed.)Bloomsbury. 2021.This compelling and distinctive volume advances Aristotelianism by bringing its traditional virtue ethics to bear upon characteristically modern issues, such as the politics of economic power and egalitarian dispute. This volume bridges the gap between Aristotle's philosophy and the multitude of contemporary Aristotelian theories that have been formulated in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. Part I draws on Aristotle's texts and Thomas Aquinas' Aristotelianism to examine the Aristotelian…Read more
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107Virtue and Meaningful WorkBusiness Ethics Quarterly 22 (2): 433-450. 2012.This paper deploys Alasdair MacIntyre’s Aristotelian virtue ethics, in which meaningfulness is understood to supervene on human functioning, to bring empirical and ethical accounts of meaningful work into dialogue. Whereas empirical accounts have presented the experience of meaningful work either in terms of agents’ orientation to work or as intrinsic to certain types of work, ethical accounts have largely assumed the latter formulation and subjected it to considerations of distributive justice.…Read more
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9Virtue and Economy: Essays on Morality and Markets (edited book)Ashgate. 2015.Interest in Aristotelianism and in virtue ethics has been growing for half a century but as yet the strengths of the study of Aristotelian ethics in politics have not been matched in economics. This ground-breaking text fills that gap. Challenging the premises of neoclassical economic theory, the contributors take issue with neoclassicism’s foundational separation of values from facts, with its treatment of preferences as given, and with its consequent refusal to reason about final ends. Contrib…Read more
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21Gadamer's Century: Essays in Honor of Hans-Georg GadamerContemporary Political Theory 4 (2): 201-204. 2005.
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38Book Reviews:Dependent Rational Animals: Why Human Beings Need the Virtues (review)Ethics 111 (1): 177-179. 2000.
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82After Tradition?: Heidegger or MacIntyre, Aristotle and MarxAnalyse & Kritik 30 (1): 33-52. 2008.Philosophical tradition has been challenged by those who would have us look to our own practice, and to nothing beyond. In this, the philosophy of Martin Heidegger is followed by the politics of Hannah Arendt, for whom the tradition of political philosophy terminated with Karl Marx’s theorization of labour. This challenge has been met by Alasdair MacIntyre, for whom the young Marx’s reconceptualization of production as a social activity can inform an Aristotelianism that addresses our shared pra…Read more
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24Review: The Tasks of Philosophy: Selected Essays Volume 1 (review)Philosophy of Management 7 (1): 130-134. 2008.
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17History and PluralityAmerican Catholic Philosophical Quarterly 88 (4): 725-750. 2014.Alasdair MacIntyre has long believed that philosophy should be conducted with reference to its past. Since After Virtue, he has argued that philosophy’s past should be understood in terms of rival traditions. This essay attempts to chart the development of MacIntyre’s historical thinking about ethics against the longer development of liberalism’s rival tradition of thinking about history, drawing contrasts with what was said by Immanuel Kant on progress, R. G. Collingwood on civilization, and Jo…Read more
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7Max Weber's Science of Man: New Studies for a Biography of the Work (review)Contemporary Political Theory 4 (2): 201-204. 2005.
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28Aristotelianism versus CommunitarianismAnalyse & Kritik 27 (2): 259-273. 2005.Alasdair MacIntyre is an Aristotelian critic of communitarianism, which he understands to be committed to the politics of the capitalist and bureaucratic nation-state. The politics he proposes instead is based in the resistance to managerial institutions of what he calls ‘practices’, because these are schools of virtue. This shares little with the communitarianism of a Taylor or the Aristotelianism of a Gadamer. Although practices require formal institutions. MacIntyre opposes such conservative …Read more
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Virtue, politics, and history : rival enquiries into action and orderIn Paul Blackledge & Kelvin Knight (eds.), Virtue and Politics: Alasdair Macintyre's Revolutionary Aristotelianism, University of Notre Dame Press. 2011.
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59MacIntyre's ProgressJournal of Moral Philosophy 6 (1): 115-126. 2009.Alasdair MacIntyre has recently had published two books of selected essays, a study of the phenomenologist Edith Stein, a third edition of After Virtue, and an extensive collection of his early Marxist writings. These are reviewed, along with two recently published commentaries upon his work. The recent reinterpretation and revival of interest in that work receives much support from most of these publications. Central to this reinterpretation is the concept of practices, which MacIntyre first el…Read more
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36Aristotele, Analitici secondi. Organon IV, a cura di Mario Mignucci, introduzione di Jonathan Barnes, con testo greco a fronte; Laterza, Roma-Bari 2007, XXXIV-329,€ 28, 00. Giovanni Panno, Dionisiaco e alterità nelle «Leggi» di Platone. Ordine del corpo e automovimento dell'anima nella città-tragedia, con un saggio introduttivo di Ma (review)Giornale Critico Della Filosofia Italiana 86 (2). 2007.
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71Practices: The Aristotelian ConceptAnalyse & Kritik 30 (1): 317-329. 2008.Social practices are widely regarded as the bedrock that turns one’s spade, beneath which no further justifications for action can be found. Followers of the later Wittgenstein might therefore be right to agree with Heideggerians and neo-pragmatists that philosophy’s traditional search for first principles should be abandoned. However, the concept of practices has played a very different role in the philosophy of Alasdair MacIntyre. Having once helped lead the assault on foundationalism in both …Read more
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16GoodsPhilosophy of Management 7 (1): 107-122. 2008.Parts 1 to 3 of this paper explore the theoretical rationale and ethical significance of Alasdair MacIntyre’s twin distinctions between goods internal and external to practices and between goods of excellence and of effectiveness. Parts 4 and 5 then relate this analysis to his critique of contemporary institutions, compartmentalisation and management. My argument is that these concepts express a teleological theory of why and how goods should be ordered which, in refusing to identify practical r…Read more
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23What's the good of post-analytic philosophy?History of European Ideas 37 (3): 304-314. 2011.Analytic philosophy began in G.E. Moore's critique of idealist accounts of reality, implicating as dilemmatic F.H. Bradley's identification of the good with self-realization. Neither the tradition of British idealism nor the successor tradition of analytic metaethics was able to sustain the salience previously enjoyed by the concept of good. The essay's second part analyzes Alasdair MacIntyre's account of that longer tradition, and his argument that Aristotelianism's conceptual scheme provides t…Read more
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9Macintyre ReaderUniversity of Notre Dame Press. 1998.Alasdair MacIntyre is one of the most controversial philosophers and social theorists of our time. He opposes liberalism and postmodernism with the teleological arguments of an updated Thomistic Aristotelianism. It is this tradition, he claims, which presents the best theory so far about the nature of rationality, morality, and politics. This is the first reader of MacIntyre's groundbreaking work. It includes extracts from and his own synopses of two famous books from the 1980s, After Virtue and…Read more
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79Aristotle is the most influential philosopher of practice, and Knight's new book explores the continuing importance of Aristotelian philosophy. First, it examines the theoretical bases of what Aristotle said about ethical, political and productive activity. It then traces ideas of practice through such figures as St Paul, Luther, Hegel, Heidegger and recent Aristotelian philosophers, and evaluates Alasdair MacIntyre's contribution. Knight argues that, whereas Aristotle's own thought legitimated …Read more
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2Revolutionary AristotelianismIn Paul Blackledge & Kelvin Knight (eds.), Virtue and Politics: Alasdair Macintyre's Revolutionary Aristotelianism, University of Notre Dame Press. 2011.