Alasdair MacIntyre

Alasdair MacIntyre professed Catholicism, and our Church let him do it. He was a Communist once, but professed to have left them in 1959. He's most-known for After Virtue, whose third edition of 2007 can be had gratis at the Archive. From that American university professing the name of nôtre dame.

I have only heard of him because various X folx are alerting me that he died recently. That's one way of showing how well-read you are, I suppose. Of interest, some of those xweeters doing the "RIP" thing are linking elsewhere to articles showing how well Catholic societies do once not socialist, like Poland.

It has long been noted that reactionaries become Thinkers when they have a reactionary patron. Socialists become Thinkers when they have a socialist patron. It's always nice not to have to deal with the business of feeding yourself or getting health checked up. But doing this on the backs of other labourers has never sat right with me.

And, in support, I can point to Poland, whose liberation MacIntyre - best I can tell - did nothing to help. I see little self-reflection in the 2007 edition.

As noted earlier, I have a backlog of Stuff To Read. I've seen little reason to read MacIntyre. Enjoy the Purgatory.