After Virtue

Author : Alasdair MacIntyre
Publisher : A&C Black
ISBN 13 : 1623569818
Total Pages : 352 pages
Book Rating : 4.15/5 ( download)

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Download or read book After Virtue written by Alasdair MacIntyre and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2013-10-21 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Author : Alasdair MacIntyre
Publisher : A&C Black
ISBN 13 : 1623565251
Total Pages : 352 pages
Book Rating : 4.51/5 ( download)

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Download or read book After Virtue written by Alasdair MacIntyre and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2013-10-21 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Author : Alasdair C. MacIntyre
Publisher : A&C Black
ISBN 13 : 1780936257
Total Pages : 361 pages
Book Rating : 4.53/5 ( download)

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Download or read book After Virtue written by Alasdair C. MacIntyre and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2013-03-25 with total page 361 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this landmark work, MacIntyre returns to the 'Virtue'-based ethics of Aristotle in answer to the crisis of moral language caused by the Enlightenment.

Author : Christopher Stephen Lutz
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 1441176632
Total Pages : 297 pages
Book Rating : 4.39/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Reading Alasdair MacIntyre’s After Virtue written by Christopher Stephen Lutz and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2012-04-05 with total page 297 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After Virtue is a watershed in MacIntyre's career. It follows his emergence from Marxism, but draws on Marxist sources and arguments. It precedes his move to Thomism, but already draws on Augustine and Aquinas. Because of its watershed nature, it has gained a wide readership in various fields but it treats a variety of issues in ways that are unfamiliar either to Marxists schooled in the social sciences or to Thomists schooled in medieval metaphysics. Reading Alasdair MacIntyre's After Virtue provides a commentary that will be accessible to students, valuable to scholars, and useful to teachers. Students will find help to navigate the two main arguments of After Virtue, to understand its interpretation of history, and to engage its proposal for a form of ethics and politics that returns to the tradition of the virtues. Scholars will find the book useful as a general guide to MacIntyre's ethics. Teachers will find a book that can help to direct their students' reading and keep classroom discussions focused on the book's central concerns.

Author : R. Scott Smith
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 135187568X
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.84/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Virtue Ethics and Moral Knowledge written by R. Scott Smith and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-10-24 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: We live in a time of moral confusion: many believe there are no overarching moral norms, and we have lost an accepted body of moral knowledge. Alasdair MacIntyre addresses this problem in his much-heralded restatement of Aristotelian and Thomistic virtue ethics; Stanley Hauerwas does so through his highly influential work in Christian ethics. Both recast virtue ethics in light of their interpretations of the later Wittgenstein's views of language. This book systematically assesses the underlying presuppositions of MacIntyre and Hauerwas, finding that their attempts to secure moral knowledge and restate virtue ethics, both philosophical and theological, fail. Scott Smith proposes alternative indications as to how we can secure moral knowledge, and how we should proceed in virtue ethics.

Author : Geoff Moore
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0198793448
Total Pages : 229 pages
Book Rating : 4.41/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Virtue at Work written by Geoff Moore and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2017 with total page 229 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides an integrated and philosophically-grounded framework that enables a coherent approach to organizations and organizational ethics from the perspective of practitioners in the workplace, managers in organizations, and organizations themselves.

Author : John J. Davenport
Publisher : Open Court
ISBN 13 : 0812699319
Total Pages : 416 pages
Book Rating : 4.19/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Kierkegaard After MacIntyre written by John J. Davenport and published by Open Court. This book was released on 2015-11-02 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In his extraordinarily influential book on ethics, After Virtue, Alasdair MacIntyre maintained that Kierkegaard's notion of "choosing" to interpret one's choices in ethical terms implies an arbitrary and irrational leap. MacIntyre's critique of Kierkegaard has become the focal point for several new interpretations of Kierkegaard that seek to answer MacIntyre. Kierkegaard After MacIntyre brings together both new and already published articles in this vein, with a new reply by Professor MacIntyre. Kierkegaard After MacIntyre reflects the emergence of a new consensus in Kierkegaard scholarship. This consensus is strongly anti-irrationalist and contemporary neo-Aristotelian virtue ethics, clarifying their common ground as well as their differences. In responding to MacIntyre's 'irrationalist' objection, the authors clarify the sense in which Kierkegaard's own conception of freedom is teleological and suggest that his understanding of the development of ethical personality involves a quest for narrative unity, a commitment to practices involving social values, and a self-understanding conditioned by historical reality—all of which are also central themes in MacIntyre's work on virtue ethics. Despite MacIntyre's diagnosis of Kierkegaard's existential approach to ethics as unsuccessful, some of Kierkegaard's insights may support MacIntyre's own theses. "Kierkegaard After MacIntyre is an outstanding book which brings Kierkegaard into direct conversation with one of the most important contemporary philosophers. The conversation contains both lively disagreements and illuminating analyses, all focused on issues of fundamental importance for human life." —C. Stephen Evans, Calvin College ". . . this wonderfully edifying collection of essays." —Timothy P. Jackson, Emory University "In addressing MacIntyre's charge that for Kierkegaard the adoption of the ethical can only be a 'cirterionless choice,' this stimulating set of essays by well-known Kierkegaard scholars provides a welcome addition to the literature on Kierkegaardian ethics. Kierkegaard After MacIntyre provides a valuable exploration of the role of reasoning, will, and passion in moral life, as well as of the relation between aesthetic and ethical dimensions of life." —M. Jamie Ferreira, University of Virginia

Author : Alasdair C. MacIntyre
Publisher : Bloomsbury Academic
ISBN 13 : 9780715621998
Total Pages : 410 pages
Book Rating : 4.98/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Whose Justice? Which Rationality? written by Alasdair C. MacIntyre and published by Bloomsbury Academic. This book was released on 1988 with total page 410 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Sarah Chayes
Publisher : Univ. of Queensland Press
ISBN 13 : 9780702235887
Total Pages : 418 pages
Book Rating : 4.81/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Punishment of Virtue written by Sarah Chayes and published by Univ. of Queensland Press. This book was released on 2006 with total page 418 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Thomas D. D'Andrea
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351878301
Total Pages : 504 pages
Book Rating : 4.02/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Tradition, Rationality, and Virtue written by Thomas D. D'Andrea and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-09-29 with total page 504 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tradition, Rationality, and Virtue provides the first comprehensive and detailed treatment of the work of Alasdair MacIntyre. In this book Thomas D'Andrea presents an accessible critical study of the full range of MacIntyre's thought across ethical theory, psychoanalytic theory, social and political philosophy, Marxist theory, and the philosophy of religion. Moving from the roots of MacIntyre's thought in ethical inquiry, this book examines MacIntyre's treatment of Marx, Christianity, and the nature of human action and discusses in depth the development and applications of MacIntyre's After Virtue project. The book culminates in an examination of major internal and external criticisms of MacIntyre's work and a consideration of its future directions.