La disfunzionalità del cristianesimo. Alasdair MacIntyre filosofo della religione

This paper focuses on the relation between morality and secularization in the works of one of the major moral philosophers of our time: Alasdair MacIntyre. Firstly I analyze the philosophy of religion developed by him during the 1950s and the 1960s, which is characterized by a growing disaffection for the Christian belief; secondly I focus on the writings belonging to the 1970s and the 1980s, characterized by an Aristotelian-Thomistic approach and by MacIntyre’s reconciliation with the Christian belief. In his latest works, MacIntyre identifies the possibility of a central cultural role for Christian theism in the liberal secularized societies, where it can develop its dysfunctional and critical potentialities.