MacIntyre, la autoliberación y el problema de la autoridad

Abstract

This paper traces the correspondence that exists in the thought of Alasdair MacIntyre, between the Marxist period of his youth and the mature Neo-Aristotelian one, regarding the type of activity of resistance that must be adopted against the system and the model of authority that is necessary to maintain that activity. Through a comparative reading of the most relevant texts of each period, the conclusion is reached that not only does the practical proposal constitute a form of self-liberation by the subjects affected by the system and is the model of authority one voluntarily accepted and non-coercive, but also that in both stages of the analysis there is a tension between these two elements, which the author attempts to solve appealing to the same resources