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100 1 _aMacIntyre, Alasdair,
_d1929-
245 1 0 _aAfter virtue :
_ba study in moral theory /
_cby Alasdair MacIntyre.
250 _a3rd ed., [with new prologue]
260 _aNotre Dame, Ind. :
_bUniversity of Notre Dame Press,
_c2007.
300 _axix, 286 p. ;
_c23 cm.
504 _aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [279]-281) and index.
505 0 _aA 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.
650 0 _aEthics.
650 0 _aVirtues.
650 0 _aVirtue.
856 4 1 _3Table of contents only
_uhttp://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip077/2006102640.html
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_cE-BOOK