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Alasdair Chalmers MacIntyre (born 1929) is a Scottish philosopher primarily known for his contribution to moral and political philosophy but known also for his work in history of philosophy and theology. He is Senior Research Fellow at the Centre for Contemporary Aristotelian Studies in Ethics and Politics (CASEP) at London Metropolitan University and an Emeritus Professor of Philosophy at the University of Notre Dame.

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birth date
1929-01-12
birth place
Scotland, Glasgow
influenced
Postliberal theology, Radical Orthodoxy, Stanley Hauerwas
influenced by
Aristotle, Augustine of Hippo, Friedrich Nietzsche, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, Karl Marx, Søren Kierkegaard, R. G. Collingwood, Thomas Aquinas, Edith Stein, Imre Lakatos, John Henry Newman, Thomas Kuhn
main interest
Ethics, Meta-ethics, Political philosophy, History of ethics
notableIdea
Virtue ethics
philosophicalSchool
Thomism, Analytic philosophy
region
Western philosophy

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