After Virtue
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After Virtue

  1. 361 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
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After Virtue

About this book

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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Information

Publisher
Bloomsbury Academic
Year
2013
Print ISBN
9781780936253
eBook ISBN
9781623565251
Edition
1
Topic
Philosophy
Subtopic
Ethics & Moral Philosophy

Table of contents

  1. Title Page
  2. Copyright Page
  3. Contents
  4. Prologue to the Third Edition After Virtue After a Quarter of a Century
  5. Preface
  6. Chapter 1 A Disquieting Suggestion
  7. Chapter 2 The Nature of Moral Disagreement Today and the Claims of Emotivism
  8. Chapter 3 Emotivism: Social Content and Social Context
  9. Chapter 4 The Predecessor Culture and the Enlightenment Project of Justifying Morality
  10. Chapter 5 Why the Enlightenment Project of Justifying Morality had to Fail
  11. Chapter 6 Some Consequences of the Failure of the Enlightenment Project
  12. Chapter 7 ‘Fact’, Explanation and Expertise
  13. Chapter 8 The Character of Generalizations in Social Science and their Lack of Predictive Power
  14. Chapter 9 Nietzsche or Aristotle?
  15. Chapter 10 The Virtues in Heroic Societies
  16. Chapter 11 The Virtues at Athens
  17. Chapter 12 Aristotle’s Account of the Virtues
  18. Chapter 13 Medieval Aspects and Occasions
  19. Chapter 14 The Nature of the Virtues
  20. Chapter 15 The Virtues, the Unity of a Human Life and the Concept of a Tradition
  21. Chapter 16 From the Virtues to Virtue and After Virtue
  22. Chapter 17 Justice as a Virtue: Changing Conceptions
  23. Chapter 18 After Virtue: Nietzsche or Aristotle, Trotsky and St Benedict
  24. Chapter 19 Postscript to the Second Edition
  25. Bibliography