| Description |
xviii, 486 pages ; 24 cm |
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Introduction: Understanding MacIntyre : his biography and distinctive voice -- Part I, The roots of MacIntyre's thought -- 1. Reconceiving ethical inquiry. How not to conduct ethical inquiry. Lessons from the history of ethics. Ought language. The moral quandaries of the modern social order. Towards the formulation of a new moral theory -- 2. Philosophy and the exigence of praxis -- The appeal of Marx : a first estimation. Uses and abuses of Marx's thought. A democratic culture of critical inquiry. Towards a post-Marxist ideology of liberation -- 3. The rational resources of Christianity. First explorations. Christian belief and the challenge of philosophical rationality. The atrophy of reason in modern Christianity. Social change and Christian unbelief. Ethics and Christian theism -- 4. The explanation of human action : social, psychological, and historical considerations. Psychoanalysis and explanation. Action explanation, logical and causal. The refutation of behaviourism. Historical context and the limitations of social scientific explanation. Social explanation and ideology |
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Future directions -- 8. Continuities and discontinuities in the oeuvre. The normative question in ethics. Theism and religious belief. Marxism : the considered verdict. MacIntyre's mature outlook : a unified perspective? -- 9. Criticisms, internal and external. Relativism and the question of vindication. Historicism vs. Thomistic Aristotelianism? Anti-pluralistic authoritarianism? Romantic conservative utopianism? Reactionary anti-modernism? Morality justified? |
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Part II, The After Virtue project -- 5. The After Virtue synthesis. Evidences of a present moral crisis. The crisis in its historical causes. Resources for the restoration of rational moral discourse. Reconstituting virtue-based morality. The present social imperative -- 6. The project developed. After Virtue's aftermath. The evolution of pre-modern practical reason. The Augustinian contribution and the Thomistic synthesis. Challenging modern morality. Confronting today's moral dissensus -- 7. The project applied. Present humanistic debate in its social and historical context. Competing conceptions of moral inquiry. The Thomistic Aristotelian epistemic ideal : a reformulation. The distinctiveness of the Thomistic moral standpoint. The vindication of Thomistic moral theory. Revitalizing contemporary academic debate. A postscript to the project : moral inquiry and dependency |
| Notes |
Table of contents and index are taken from the published work with the permission of the publisher |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 435-452) and index |
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MacIntyre, Alasdair C.
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MacIntyre, Alasdair C. After virtue
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MacIntyre, Alasdair C. -- Criticism and interpretation.
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MacIntyre, Alasdair, 1929-
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MacIntyre, Alasdair., 1929-
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Christian ethics.
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Ethics -- History -- 20th century.
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Ethics.
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Philosophers -- England -- Biography.
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Philosophical theology.
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Philosophy and religion.
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Biographies.
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| LC no. |
2005034916 |
| ISBN |
0754651126 (hbk.) |
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9780754651123 (hbk.) |
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