MARC Record from Harvard University

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050 0 $aBJ1012$b.M325 1984
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100 1 $aMacIntyre, Alasdair C.
245 10 $aAfter virtue :$ba study in moral theory /$cby Alasdair MacIntyre.
250 $a2nd ed.
260 0 $aNotre Dame, Ind. :$bUniversity of Notre Dame Press,$c1984.
300 $axi, 286 p. ;$c24 cm.
504 $aIcludes bibliographical references ( p. [279]-281) and index.
505 0 $aA disquieting suggestion -- The nature of moral disagreement today and the claims of emotivism -- Emotivism: social content and social context -- The predecessor culture and the enlightenment project of justifying morality -- Why the enlightenment project of justifying morality had to fail -- Some consequences of the failure of the enlightenment project -- "Fact", explanation and expertise -- The character of generalizations in social science and their lack of predictive power -- Nietzsche or Aristotle? -- The virtues in heroic societies -- The virtues at Athens -- Aristotle's account of the virtues -- Medieval aspects and occasions -- The nature of the virtues -- The virtues, the unity of a human life and the concept of a tradition -- From the virtues to virtue and after virtue -- Justice as a virtue: changing conceptions -- After virtue: Nietzsche or Aristotle, Trotsky and St. Benedict -- Postscript to the second edition.
520 $aDiscusses the nature of moral disagreement, Nietzsche, Aristotle, heroic societies, and the virtue of justice. In a new chapter, MacIntyre elaborates his position on the relationship of philosophy to history, the virtues and the issue of relativism, and the relationship of moral philosophy to theology.
650 0 $aVirtue.
650 0 $aEthics.
650 0 $aVirtues.
690 9 $aMoral theory.$5soc
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