Macintyre's Argument Of Political Justification

Needless to say, the above remark suggests that MacIntyre's argument of political justifications rests on providing adequate justification for accepting and upholding the legitimacy of the political authority and for the kind of allegiance that a political society must have from its members, if it is meant to flourish.

to provide adequate justification for

Framed within the constraints set by the flawed foundations of the Enlightenment project, the politics of the modern state is, says MacIntyre (2007), indefensible, incoherent to be rationally justifiable. He thinks that state politics is unable to sustain an adequate account for the authority of its set of institutions, and thereby for citizen's allegiance and obedience to the state (MacIntyre,