Three rival versions of moral enquiry : encyclopaedia, genealogy, and tradition : being Gifford lectures delivered in the University of Edinburgh in 1988 /

MacIntyre, Alasdair C,

Three rival versions of moral enquiry : encyclopaedia, genealogy, and tradition : being Gifford lectures delivered in the University of Edinburgh in 1988 / by Alasdair MacIntyre. - Notre Dame, Indiana : University of Notre Dame Press, (c)1990. - x, 241 pages ; 24 cm.



Adam Gifford's project in context -- Genealogies and subversions -- Too many Thomisms? -- Augustinian conception of moral enquiry -- Aristotle and/or/against Augustine -- Aquinas and the rationality of tradition -- In the aftermath of defeated tradition -- Tradition against encyclopaedia -- Tradition against genealogy -- Reconceiving the university as an institution and the lecture as a genre.



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Augustine, Saint, Bishop of Hippo --Ethics.
Nietzsche, Friedrich Wilhelm, 1844-1900. --


Catholic Church. Pope (1878-1903 : Leo XIII). -- Aeterni Patris.


Ethics--Methodology.
Ethics--Study and teaching.
Thomists.

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