Reading Alasdair MacIntyre's After virtue. ([2012])

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Christopher Stephen Lutz.
• Authors: Lutz, Christopher Stephen, 1966-
• Contents: 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. 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. 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. 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.
• Publisher Details: London : Continuum
• Publication Date: 2012
• Copyright Date: 2012
• Extent: 1 online resource (227 pages)
• Subjects: 170/.42; Ethics; Virtues; Virtue; PHILOSOPHY -- Ethics & Moral Philosophy; PHILOSOPHY -- Social; Ethics; Virtue; Virtues; Electronic books; Electronic books; Ethics
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781441193544; 1441193545
• Related ISBNs: 9781441145079; 1441145079; 9781441126160; 1441126163
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.; Note: Print version record.
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