After virtue a study in moral theory / Alasdair MacIntyre.
Material type: TextSeries: Bloomsbury revelationsPublisher: London : Bloomsbury, 2013Edition: 3rd editionDescription: xx, 333 pagesContent type: text Media type: computer Carrier type: online resourceISBN: 9781623565251 (ebook)Subject(s): Ethics | Philosophy | Ethics & moral philosophyGenre/Form: LOC classification: BJ1012Online access: Click here to access online Also available in printed form ISBN 9781780936253Summary: '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.Item type | Current library | Home library | Class number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item reservations | |
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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.
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