The implicit liberalism of the Aristotelian-Thomist moral tradition

Abstract

In this most recent philosophical work, A. MacIntyre has developed an intelligent connection between the theorical and practical guiding ideas of aristotelicplatonic ethics, and Thomas Aquinas' rationalized christianism. This group of ideas is known by the name of tradition. The article upholds that such connection is theological, deriving that in a pluralistic society as ours the former fact represents a serious obstacle for the social convalidation of MacIntyre's moral proposal. On the other hand, this socalled tradition, displayed in the article as a matrix of aour time's social morality, owes a fundamental concept to liberalism.