Illiberalism Will Not Secure the Common Good

Last November, Alasdair MacIntyre stirred controversy in a talk on human dignity, which he calls "a puzzling and possibly dangerous idea." Predictably, the talk provoked a range of responses, but the most enthusiastic came from a group of political theorists that have emerged in recent years as harsh critics of political liberalism. In MacIntyre's critique of "dignity," they saw a justification for dismantling the liberal state.