Three Rival Versions of Moral Enquiry: Encyclopedia, Genealogy, and Tradition : Being Gifford Lectures Delivered in the University of Edinburgh in 1 - Couverture rigide

MacIntyre, Alasdair

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0268018715 ISBN 13 : 9780268018719

Editeur : University of Notre Dame Press, 1994

Synopsis

MacIntyre's project, here as elsewhere, is to put up a fight against philosophical relativism. . . . The current form is the 'incommensurability, ' so-called, of differing standpoints or conceptual schemes. Mr. MacIntyre claims that different schools of philosophy must differ fundamentally about what counts as a rational way to settle intellectual differences. Reading between the lines, one can see that he has in mind nationalities as well as thinkers, and literary criticism as well as academic philosophy. More explicitly, he labels and discusses three significantly different standpoints: the encyclopedic, the genealogical and the traditional. . . . [T]he chapters on the development of Christian philosophy between Augustine and Duns Scotus are very interesting indeed. . . . [MacIntyre] must be the past, present, future, and all-time philosophical historians' historian of philosophy. -The New York Times Book Review

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Alasdair MacIntyre is research professor of philosophy at the University of Notre Dame. He is the author of numerous books, including After Virtue, A Short History of Ethics, and Whose Justice? Which Rationality?, all published by the University of Notre Dame Press.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: University of Notre Dame Press
• Date d'édition: 1994
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0268018715
• ISBN 13: 9780268018719
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 252
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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