Hegel and MacIntyre

Michael Lazarus is Lecturer in Political Theory in the Department of Political Economy at King’s College London. He is the author of Absolute Ethical Life: Aristotle, Hegel and Marx (2025) and many articles and essays at the intersection of normative social theory and the critique of political economy.Caleb Bernacchio is the Legendre-Soulé Chair in Business Ethics, Associate Professor of Management and Faculty Director of the Center for Ethics and Economic Justice at Loyola University New Orleans. His research focuses on the intersection of organization theory and neo-Aristotelian practical philosophy. He has published widely on aspects of Alasdair MacIntyre’s work and themes from Hegel’s practical philosophy. He is the author of Human Flourishing and the Firm (2026). His work has also been published in a range of journals, including Academy of Management Review, Acta Philosophica, Business Ethics: A European Review, Business Ethics Quarterly, International Philosophical Quarterly, Journal of Business Ethics, Philosophy of Management and Rethinking Marxism.Ahmad Fattah is an independent scholar working at the intersection of ethics and the history of philosophy, with a specific interest in the meta-history of ethics. He was Honorary Research Fellow in the Department of Philosophy at the University of Sheffield. He was previously a visiting Graduate Student Researcher in the Department of Philosophy at the University of Toronto. He holds a BA in Political Science from the University of Western Ontario and an MBA from the University of Liverpool. He received his MA and PhD degrees in Philosophy from the University of Sheffield, advised by Robert Stern.David Kretz is Postdoctoral Associate in the Humanities Program at Yale University. He received his PhD from the Committee on Social Thought and the Department of Germanic Studies at the University of Chicago. Prior to that, he studied philosophy, intellectual history and literature in Paris, Berlin and his hometown Vienna.

• Introduction. Section One 1. Self-Knowledge and Human Life 2. Between Sartre and Goffman: Alasdair MacIntyre and Hegel’s Theory of the Self 3. After Determinate Content: Reading MacIntyre as an Inferentialist Section Two 4. Found or sought? Hegel vs MacIntyre on the Good Life and the Virtues 5. Saving the Enlightenment from Itself: Hegel versus MacIntyre on Teleology and Right 6. Thomistic Aristotelians on the Sociality of Reason 7. Deweyan Democracy as a Way of Life: Pragmatist possibilities for MacIntyre Section Three 8. Freedom and Rational Agency in the Young MacIntyre 9. Alasdair MacIntyre: Under the Shadow of Hegel 10. From Freedom to Final End: MacIntyre’s Hegelian Aristotle