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1 online resource (227 pages) |
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Cover; Halftitle; Title page; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Acknowledgments; Abbreviations; Introduction; Philosophy of science; Method; Reading AV; Two notes on notation; 1 MacIntyre and Marxism; Action versus behavior; The philosophy of the social sciences and the critique of Marxism; The origins of AV in the moral critique of Stalinism; Marx and MacIntyre versus individualism; "Liberalism," Marxism, and Aristotle; 2 Understanding the "Disquieting Suggestion"; The "Disquieting Suggestion"; Recognizing the catastrophe; Moral action and human action |
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Moving forward: History, realism, and tradition3 Summary of the critical argument; Overview of the critical argument; Chapter one: A "Disquieting Suggestion"; Chapter two: The nature of moral disagreement today and the claims of emotivism; Chapter three: Emotivism: Social content and social context; Chapter four: The predecessor culture and the enlightenment project of justifying morality; Chapter five: Why the enlightenment project of justifying morality had to fail; Chapter six: Some consequences of the failure of theenlightenment project; Chapter seven: "Fact," explanation, and expertise |
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Chapter eight: The character of generalizations in socialscience and their lack of predictive powerChapter nine: Nietzsche or Aristotle?; 4 Commentary on the critical argument; Conventional moral philosophy; Relativism?; Practical reasoning and moral judgment; Contemporary debates and disagreements; Emotivism in the gap between meaning and use; From epistemology to action; Four characters from emotivist culture; Practical rules and moral fi ctions; The false promise of a scientifi c alternative to moralphilosophy; Nietzsche or Aristotle?; 5 Summary of the constructive argument |
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Specifying AristotleDefining virtue; Applying the theory; 6 Commentary on the constructive argument; Action and practice as the subject matter of ethics; The development of practices in Alasdair MacIntyre'swork; Two problems: The unity of virtue and evil practices; Aristotle without metaphysics?; Metaphysics and practice in Aristotelian philosophy; Relativism?; Nostalgia?; Pessimism?; 7 Alasdair MacIntyre's constructive work since AV; Secondary literature on MacIntyre; Bibliography; Index |
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After Virtue is a watershed in MacIntyre''s career. It follows his emergence from Marxism, but draws on Marxist sources and arguments. It precedes his move to Thomism, but already draws on Augustine and Aquinas. Because of its watershed nature, it has gained a wide readership in various fields but it treats a variety of issues in ways that are unfamiliar either to Marxists schooled in the social sciences or to Thomists schooled in medieval metaphysics. Reading Alasdair MacIntyre''s After Virtue provides a commentary that will be accessible to students, valuable to scholars, and useful to teachers |
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Includes bibliographical references and index |
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Print version record |
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MacIntyre, Alasdair C. After virtue.
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MacIntyre, Alasdair C. -- Ethics
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MacIntyre, Alasdair C. fast |
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MacIntyre, Alasdair C. 1929- After virtue gnd |
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After virtue (MacIntyre, Alasdair C.) fast |
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Ethics.
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Virtues.
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Virtue.
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Ethics
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ethics (philosophy)
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PHILOSOPHY -- Ethics & Moral Philosophy.
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PHILOSOPHY -- Social.
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Ethics
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Virtue
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Virtues
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Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781441193544 |
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1441193545 |
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