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20th century · 1929–2025

Who influenced Alasdair MacIntyre?

Influences

After Virtue recovered the virtues against the wreckage of the Enlightenment project.

Alasdair MacIntyre was influenced by G. E. M. Anscombe. That is 1 line of the 448 documented lines of influence between the 279 thinkers on this map.

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Who was Alasdair MacIntyre?

Alasdair MacIntyre was a Scottish-American philosopher who worked on moral and political philosophy, the history of philosophy and theology. His After Virtue (1981) is one of the most important works of 20th-century English-language moral and political philosophy.

He taught at Brandeis, Duke, Vanderbilt and Boston University and was emeritus professor at Notre Dame.

Summarized from the lead of the Wikipedia article.

Who influenced Alasdair MacIntyre?

1 direct influence on this map, earliest first.

The line of teachers behind Alasdair MacIntyre

The longest documented line of influence ending at Alasdair MacIntyre runs 28 generations back, to Thales of Miletus.

  1. Thales of Miletus
  2. Anaximenes of Miletus
  3. Anaxagoras
  4. Socrates
  5. Antisthenes
  6. Diogenes of Sinope
  7. Crates of Thebes
  8. Zeno of Citium
  9. Seneca
  10. Tertullian
  11. Augustine of Hippo
  12. Anselm of Canterbury
  13. Peter Lombard
  14. Thomas Aquinas
  15. René Descartes
  16. Thomas Hobbes
  17. Baruch Spinoza
  18. Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz
  19. Christian Wolff
  20. Immanuel Kant
  21. Johann Gottlieb Fichte
  22. F. W. J. Schelling
  23. Georg W. F. Hegel
  24. T. H. Green
  25. F. H. Bradley
  26. Bertrand Russell
  27. Ludwig Wittgenstein
  28. G. E. M. Anscombe
  29. Alasdair MacIntyre

Two steps away from Alasdair MacIntyre

Indirect influences

Contemporaries of Alasdair MacIntyre

Thinkers on this map born within 25 years of Alasdair MacIntyre, with no direct line between them.

Alasdair MacIntyre by the numbers

Direct influences
1
Direct followers
0
Thinkers upstream
122
Thinkers downstream
0
Wikipedia languages
38 — #61 of 84 among 20th-century philosophers
Card rarity
Rare

Questions about Alasdair MacIntyre

Who influenced Alasdair MacIntyre?
G. E. M. Anscombe.
Who did Alasdair MacIntyre influence?
No later thinker on this map is recorded as drawing directly on Alasdair MacIntyre.
When did Alasdair MacIntyre live?
1929–2025. The map files Alasdair MacIntyre under the 20th century.
How rare is the Alasdair MacIntyre card?
Wikipedia carries an article on Alasdair MacIntyre in 38 languages, which makes it a Rare card. Legendary starts at 100 languages, Epic at 50 and Rare at 25.

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