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After virtue : a study in moral theory / by Alasdair MacIntyre.

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: Notre Dame, Indiana : University of Notre Dame Press, (c)1984.Edition: second editionDescription: xi, 286 pages ; 24 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9780268006105
  • 9780268006112
Subject(s): LOC classification:
  • BJ1012 .A384 1984
  • BJ1012
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Contents:
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 in heroic societies -- The virtues at 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 -- Postscript to the second edition.
Subject: Discusses the nature of moral disagreement, Nietzsche, Aristotle, heroic societies, and the virtue of justice.
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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 in heroic societies -- The virtues at 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 -- Postscript to the second edition.

Discusses the nature of moral disagreement, Nietzsche, Aristotle, heroic societies, and the virtue of justice.

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