Alasdair MacIntyre. Sobre tradición, revolución y modernidad

Alasdair MacIntyre’s philosophical project offers a rereading of virtue ethics within the classical tradition that must be interpreted in a revolutionary way, as opposed to a romantic or neoconservative reading. The breakdown of the moral order brought about by the advent of modernity calls for forms of political and economic resistance to the alienating power of liberal capitalism in its globalized stage. According to MacIntyre, among the progeny of modern liberalism we find Nietzsche, who unmasked modern morality as emotivism. However, Nietzsche nonetheless remained part of the modern project of the rational justification of morality. For MacIntyre, the genuine alternative to the modern project is the rearticulation of a virtue ethics rooted in the tradition of Aristotle and Thomas Aquinas.