Alasdair MacIntyre’s Critique of Liberalism: An Exegesis including Refutations to Three Liberal Counterarguments
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Authors
Gorelangton, Galen M. A.
Issue Date
2019
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Thesis
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Alasdair MacIntyre , John Rawls , Joseph Raz , Liberalism , Richard Rorty , Virtue Ethics
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Abstract
Alasdair MacIntyre provides a diagnosis of why liberalism may be doomed. In my first chapter I give an exegesis of Alasdair MacIntyre’s critique of liberalism. In distilling MacIntyre’s critique from the five volumes of his mature work I take myself to have made a genuine contribution. In the subsequent three chapters I focus on the writings of three prominent liberal theorists: Rorty, Rawls, & Raz. From their respective theories I construct, and then refute, three liberal counterarguments to MacIntyre’s critique. I have attempted to show that MacIntyre’s theory, and his critique, hold strong. I conclude that Alasdair MacIntyre’s critique of liberalism ought to be given serious attention.