ALASDAIR MACINTYRE: A REVOLUTIONARY ARISTOTELISM?

Abstract

This paper intends to show that MacIntyre's Aristotelianism not only springs from his original assimilation of the Aristotelian doctrine of moral virtue, but also that it is anchored in the Aristotelian conception of action as a movement. This conception is formulated in the Eudemian Ethics, whose onto­logical foundations were established in Physics and Metaphysics, as well as in physiology (The movement of animals) and psychology (De Anima). Some of the fundamental concepts of the “After Virtue Project” are based on the revo­lution in the understanding of moral action, operated by Aristotle in polemic with Socratic intellectualism and sophist relativism.