After virtue :
MacIntyre, Alasdair, 1929-
After virtue : a study in moral theory / by Alasdair MacIntyre. - 3rd ed., [with new prologue] - Notre Dame, Ind. : University of Notre Dame Press, 2007. - xix, 286 p. ; 23 cm.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [279]-281) and index.
A 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 of heroic societies -- The virtues of 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.
9780268035044 (pbk. : alk. paper) 0268035040 (pbk. : alk. paper)
2006102640
Ethics.
Virtues.
Virtue.
BJ1012 / .M325 2007
170.42
After virtue : a study in moral theory / by Alasdair MacIntyre. - 3rd ed., [with new prologue] - Notre Dame, Ind. : University of Notre Dame Press, 2007. - xix, 286 p. ; 23 cm.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [279]-281) and index.
A 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 of heroic societies -- The virtues of 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.
9780268035044 (pbk. : alk. paper) 0268035040 (pbk. : alk. paper)
2006102640
Ethics.
Virtues.
Virtue.
BJ1012 / .M325 2007
170.42