He was a Marxist as a young man, but abandoned that philosophy after realizing there was no moral grounding within the Marxist framework for condemning the outrages committed by Marxists states. He’s taught at Oxford, Boston University, Vanderbilt University, Duke University, and the University of Notre Dame before retiring in 2010. MacIntyre was born in Scotland in 1929 and immigrated to the U.S. What MacIntyre does in After Virtue is reason through the different positions on these questions, points out the flaws and weaknesses in some and providing his view of reconciling these positions. What is “good” and what is my obligation and “right” to that good … these are not new questions. Virtue, politics, our interactions with each other and our rights to ourselves, these are questions that have been discussed since humanity expanded beyond two people.
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