Alasdair MacIntyre
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- Series: World Philosophers and Their Works
- Categories: Philosophy, Literature, Publishing, Religion, Ethics
- Subcategories: Authors, Writers, Philosophers
- Curriculum: 20th & 21st Century European History, British History
Article abstract: MacIntyre makes a radical critique of much modern philosophy from a historicist and Aristotelian position, engaging a wide range of other academic disciplines.
Early Life
Alasdair Chalmers MacIntyre was born the only son of two Scottish doctors, both graduates of Glasgow University. He was educated privately and at Epsom College, an English public school south of London. His interests began to focus on the classics (Latin and Greek), and in 1947, he enrolled at Queen Mary College, London University, as a classics major.
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