Alasdair MacIntyre (Indiana University of Notre Dame)

Ethics in the Conflicts of Modernity

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

MacIntyre explores the central philosophical, political and moral claims of modernity and argues that a proper understanding of human goods requires a rejection of these claims. This significant book by a distinguished philosopher will interest a wide readership in moral and political philosophy.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 338
• Erscheinungstermin: 19. Februar 2019
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 23mm
• Gewicht: 600g
• ISBN-13: 9781107176454
• ISBN-10: 110717645X
• Artikelnr.: 45375200

Autorenporträt

Alasdair MacIntyre retired from teaching at the University of Notre Dame, Indiana in 2010. He is the author of the award-winning After Virtue (1981), and his other publications include two volumes of essays, The Tasks of Philosophy and Ethics and Politics (both Cambridge, 2006), Edith Stein: A Philosophical Prologue, 1913-1922 (2005), and God, Philosophy, Universities: A History of the Catholic Philosophical Tradition (2009).

Inhaltsangabe

Preface
1. Desires, goods, and 'good', the philosophical issues
2. Theory, practice, and their social contexts
3. Morality and modernity
4. Neo-Aristotelian ethics and politics developed in contemporary Thomistic terms: issues of relevance and rational justification
5. Four narratives
Index.