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Born January 12, 1929 • Glasgow • Scotland
Died May 21, 2025 (aged 96)
Notable Works “After Virtue” • “Dependent Rational Animals” • “Marxism: An Interpretation” • “Notes from the Moral Wilderness” • “Three Rival Versions of Moral Enquiry” • “Whose Justice? Which Rationality?”
Subjects Of Study morality • nation-state • teleology • virtue

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