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Loading... After Virtue: A Study in Moral Theoryby Alasdair MacIntyre
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will love Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book. This is one of the truly worth while reads of the last 20 years, and may while change the landscape of Christian ethics for the next 100. MacIntye challenges the very foundation stones of ethical arguments based on biblical interpretation. An absolute must read ( )Nostalgic or pace setting? MacIntyre traces through the failure of the Englightenment project, as it pertains the study of ethics, then offers an interesting alternative. For MacIntyre the Enlightenment set out to find that central point from which reason could work. Unfortunately that point was never found, and each attempt to determine the "truth" ended in failure. The real task of philosophical ethics, according to MacIntyre, is not to find ethical truths, but to deal with teaching virtures, a la Aristotle and Aquinas. He makes a compelling argument, and this book, along with Richard Rorty Philosophy and the Mirror of Nature, probably affected my philosophical development more than any other books I have read. Michael Eric Dyson mentioned this book as well as Stanley Hauerwas as worth reading. My buddy Chad told me to start with chapter 14 then 15 and onwards. I was amazed at the usage of the terminology and ideas others glean from this book no reviews | add a review
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The claims presented in After Virtue are certainly audacious, but the historical erudition and philosophical acuity behind MacIntyre's powerful critique of modern moral philosophy cannot be disregarded. Moreover, independently of its principal claims, the book, first published in 1981, helped to stimulate philosophical work on the virtues, to reinvigorate traditionalist and communitarian thought, and to provoke valuable discussion in the history of moral philosophy. It was so widely discussed that MacIntyre added another chapter to the second edition in order to reply to his critics. After Virtue continues to deserve attention from philosophers, historians, and anyone interested in moral philosophy and its history. --Glenn Branch
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