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Three Rival Versions of Moral Enquiry: Encyclopaedia, Genealogy, and Tradition - Couverture souple

MacIntyre, Alasdair

 
9780268018771: Three Rival Versions of Moral Enquiry: Encyclopaedia, Genealogy, and Tradition
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ISBN 10 : 0268018774 ISBN 13 : 9780268018771
Editeur : University of Notre Dame Press, 1994

Synopsis

Alasdair MacIntyre--whom Newsweek has called "one of the foremost moral philosophers in the English-speaking world"--here presents his 1988 Gifford Lectures as an expansion of his earlier work Whose Justice? Which Rationality? He begins by considering the cultural and philosophical distance dividing Lord Gifford's late nineteenth-century world from our own. The outlook of that earlier world, MacIntyre claims, was definitively articulated in the Ninth Edition of the Encyclopaedia Brittanica, which conceived of moral enquiry as both providing insight into and continuing the rational progress of mankind into ever greater enlightenment. MacIntyre compares that conception of moral enquiry to two rival conceptions also formulated in the late nineteenth century: that of Nietzsche's Zur Genealogie der Moral and that expressed in the encyclical letter of Pope Leo XIII Aeterni Patris.

The lectures focus on Aquinas's integration of Augustinian and Aristotelian modes of enquiry, the inability of the encyclopaedists' standpoint to withstand Thomistic or genealogical criticism, and the problems confronting the contemporary post-Nietzschean genealogist. MacIntyre concludes by considering the implications for education in universities and colleges.

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À propos de l'auteur

Alasdair MacIntyre is Senior Research Fellow at the Center for Contemporary Aristotelian Studies in Ethics and Politics at London Metropolitan University and Rev John A. O'Brien Senior Research Emeritus Professor of Philosophy at the University of Notre Dame. He is the author of numerous books, including After Virtue: A Study in Moral Theory, A Short History of Ethics, and Three Rival Versions of Moral Enquiry: Encyclopaedia, Genealogy, and Tradition, all published by the University of Notre Dame Press.

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Éditeur
University of Notre Dame Press
Date d'édition
1994
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
0268018774
ISBN 13 
9780268018771
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
252
Coordonnées du fabricant
University of Notre Dame Press
https://www.nd.edu/

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