Ethics in the Conflicts of Modernity - An Essay on Desire, Practical Reasoning, and Narrative

MacIntyre explores the philosophical, political, and moral issues encountered in understanding what the virtues require in contemporary social contexts.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface; 1. Desires, goods, and 'good', the philosophical issues; 2. Theory, practice, and their social contexts; 3. Morality and modernity; 4. Neo-Aristotelian ethics and politics developed in contemporary Thomistic terms: issues of relevance and rational justification; 5. Four narratives; Index.

Über den Autor / die Autorin

Alasdair MacIntyre retired from teaching at the University of Notre Dame, Indiana in 2010. He is the author of the award-winning After Virtue (1981), and his other publications include two volumes of essays, The Tasks of Philosophy and Ethics and Politics (both Cambridge, 2006), Edith Stein: A Philosophical Prologue, 1913–1922 (2005), and God, Philosophy, Universities: A History of the Catholic Philosophical Tradition (2009).

Zusammenfassung

MacIntyre explores the central philosophical, political and moral claims of modernity and argues that a proper understanding of human goods requires a rejection of these claims. This significant book by a distinguished philosopher will interest a wide readership in moral and political philosophy.

Produktdetails

• Autoren: Alasdair Macintyre, Alasdair (University of Notre Dame Macintyre, MacIntyre Alasdair
• Verlag: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Sprache: Englisch
• Produktform: Taschenbuch
• Erschienen: 30.11.2019
• EAN: 9781316629604
• ISBN: 978-1-316-62960-4
• Seiten: 334
• Themen: Geisteswissenschaften, Kunst, Musik > Geschichte; Sachbuch > Philosophie, Religion > Philosophie: Allgemeines, Nachschlagewerke; History, SOCIAL SCIENCE / General, PHILOSOPHY / Social, PHILOSOPHY / Political, HISTORY / General, PHILOSOPHY / Epistemology, PHILOSOPHY / Ethics & Moral Philosophy, Philosophy, Social & political philosophy, Ethics & moral philosophy, social and political philosophy, Ethics and moral philosophy, Far-left political ideologies and movements, Philosophy: epistemology & theory of knowledge, Marxism & Communism, Society and Social Sciences, Philosophy: epistemology and theory of knowledge