After virtue a study in moral theory /
MacIntyre, Alasdair C.,
After virtue a study in moral theory / Alasdair MacIntyre. - 3rd edition. - xx, 333 pages - Bloomsbury revelations . - Bloomsbury revelations. .
This edition originally published: 2007.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
'After Virtue' provides a re-evaluation of contemporary moral philosophy. The author elaborates his position on the connection between philosophy and history, relativism, and the relation of moral philosophy to theology. Highly controversial when it was first published in 1981, Alasdair MacIntyre's After Virtue has since established itself as a landmark work in contemporary moral philosophy. In this book, MacIntyre sought to address a crisis in moral language that he traced back to a European Enlightenment that had made the formulation of moral principles increasingly difficult. In the search for a way out of this impasse, MacIntyre returns to an earlier strand of ethical thinking, that of Aristotle, who emphasised the importance of 'virtue' to the ethical life. More than thirty years after its original publication, After Virtue remains a work that is impossible to ignore for anyone interested in our understanding of ethics and morality today.
Electronic reproduction.
Askews and Holts.
Mode of access: World Wide Web.
9781623565251 (ebook)
Ethics.
Philosophy.
Ethics & moral philosophy
BJ1012
After virtue a study in moral theory / Alasdair MacIntyre. - 3rd edition. - xx, 333 pages - Bloomsbury revelations . - Bloomsbury revelations. .
This edition originally published: 2007.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
'After Virtue' provides a re-evaluation of contemporary moral philosophy. The author elaborates his position on the connection between philosophy and history, relativism, and the relation of moral philosophy to theology. Highly controversial when it was first published in 1981, Alasdair MacIntyre's After Virtue has since established itself as a landmark work in contemporary moral philosophy. In this book, MacIntyre sought to address a crisis in moral language that he traced back to a European Enlightenment that had made the formulation of moral principles increasingly difficult. In the search for a way out of this impasse, MacIntyre returns to an earlier strand of ethical thinking, that of Aristotle, who emphasised the importance of 'virtue' to the ethical life. More than thirty years after its original publication, After Virtue remains a work that is impossible to ignore for anyone interested in our understanding of ethics and morality today.
Electronic reproduction.
Askews and Holts.
Mode of access: World Wide Web.
9781623565251 (ebook)
Ethics.
Philosophy.
Ethics & moral philosophy
BJ1012