TY  - BOOK
AU  - MacIntyre,Alasdair
TI  - After virtue: a study in moral theory 
SN  - 9780268035044 (pbk. : alk. paper)
AV  - BJ1012 .M325 2007
U1  - 170.42 22
PY  - 2007///
CY  - Notre Dame, Ind.
PB  - University of Notre Dame Press
KW  - Ethics
KW  - Virtues
KW  - Virtue
N1  - 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
UR  - http://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip077/2006102640.html
ER  -