MacIntyre, Virtue and the Critique of Capitalist Modernity

Abstract

This paper is a review essay of two collections of essays focused on the work of Alasdair MacIntyre. The review focuses on three core themes. First, it discusses those papers that explore the central role that the relationship between practices and institutions plays in MacIntyre’s critique of modernity. Second, it turns to those papers that examine the foundational role that human needs play in MacIntyre’s ethics. Third, it places in dialogue those papers that defend MacIntyre’s politics as a form of ‘revolutionary Aristotelianism’ with those that contest the soundness of this categorization.

Keywords:

• MacIntyre
• natural law
• practices
• revolution
• Marxism