A Study in Moral Theory
Alasdair MacIntyre
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This impression 2011
Third edition (with Prologue) 2007
Second edition (with Postscript) 1985
First published 1981 by
Bristol Classical Press
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Bloomsbury Academic
© 1981, 1985, 2007 by Alasdair MacIntyre
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BLOOMSBURY REVELATIONS SERIES
my father and his sisters and brothers
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Prologue to the Third Edition After Virtue After a Quarter of a Century
2 The Nature of Moral Disagreement Today and the Claims of Emotivism
3 Emotivism: Social Content and Social Context
4 The Predecessor Culture and the Enlightenment Project of Justifying Morality
5 Why the Enlightenment Project of Justifying Morality had to Fail
6 Some Consequences of the Failure of the Enlightenment Project
7 ‘Fact’, Explanation and Expertise
8 The Character of Generalizations in Social Science and their Lack of Predictive Power
10 The Virtues in Heroic Societies
12 Aristotle’s Account of the Virtues
13 Medieval Aspects and Occasions
15 The Virtues, the Unity of a Human Life and the Concept of a Tradition
16 From the Virtues to Virtue and After Virtue
17 Justice as a Virtue: Changing Conceptions
18 After Virtue: Nietzsche or Aristotle, Trotsky and St Benedict
19 Postscript to the Second Edition
Prologue to the Third Edition After Virtue After a Quarter of a Century
If there are good reasons to reject the central theses of After Virtue, by now I should certainly have learned what they are. Critical and constructive discussion in a wide range of languages—not only English, Danish, Polish, Spanish, Portuguese, French, German, Italian, and Turkish, but also Chinese and Japanese—and from a wide range of standpoints has enabled me to reconsider and to extend the enquiries that I began in After Virtue (1981) and continued in Whose Justice? Which Rationality? (1988), Three Rival Versions of Moral Enquiry (1990), and Dependent Rational Animals (1999), ...
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About After Virtue: A Study in Moral TheoryHighly 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 emphasized 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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