Alasdair MacIntyre's criticism to John Rawls' rational consensus

Abstract

The aim of this paper is to present Alasdair MacIntyre’s moral critique against the theory suggested by John Rawls concerning the difficulty of rational consensus to define the criteria of the original position, in order to elaborate the basic theory of society. This paper also characterizes the essential elements of MacIntyre’s theory as an alternative to Rawls’ model by using concepts like the narrative of humans’ life, the practice and the tradition and how these help in the elaboration of a rational criterion that is appropriate to the behaviors of particular lives. Finally, some criticism to MacIntyre’s theory will be exposed for the purpose of theoretical improvement and update.