A Study In Moral Theory
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After Virtue
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Author : Alasdair C. MacIntyre
language : en
Publisher: A&C Black
Release Date : 2013-03-25
After Virtue written by Alasdair C. MacIntyre and has been published by A&C Black this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-03-25 with Philosophy categories.
In this landmark work, MacIntyre returns to the 'Virtue'-based ethics of Aristotle in answer to the crisis of moral language caused by the Enlightenment.
After Virtue
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Author : Alasdair MacIntyre
language : en
Publisher: University of Notre Dame Pess
Release Date : 2007-03-06
After Virtue written by Alasdair MacIntyre and has been published by University of Notre Dame Pess this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007-03-06 with Philosophy categories.
When After Virtue first appeared in 1981, it was recognized as a significant and potentially controversial critique of contemporary moral philosophy. Newsweek called it “a stunning new study of ethics by one of the foremost moral philosophers in the English-speaking world.” Since that time, the book has been translated into more than fifteen foreign languages and has sold over one hundred thousand copies. Now, twenty-five years later, the University of Notre Dame Press is pleased to release the third edition of After Virtue, which includes a new prologue “After Virtue after a Quarter of a Century.” In this classic work, Alasdair MacIntyre examines the historical and conceptual roots of the idea of virtue, diagnoses the reasons for its absence in personal and public life, and offers a tentative proposal for its recovery. While the individual chapters are wide-ranging, once pieced together they comprise a penetrating and focused argument about the price of modernity. In the Third Edition prologue, MacIntyre revisits the central theses of the book and concludes that although he has learned a great deal and has supplemented and refined his theses and arguments in other works, he has “as yet found no reason for abandoning the major contentions” of this book. While he recognizes that his conception of human beings as virtuous or vicious needed not only a metaphysical but also a biological grounding, ultimately he remains “committed to the thesis that it is only from the standpoint of a very different tradition, one whose beliefs and presuppositions were articulated in their classical form by Aristotle, that we can understand both the genesis and the predicament of moral modernity.”
A Study In Moral Theory Routledge Revivals
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Author : John Laird
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2014-04-23
A Study In Moral Theory Routledge Revivals written by John Laird and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-04-23 with Philosophy categories.
First published in 1926, this study addresses the theory of morality using four overarching approaches: analytical, psychological, theoretical, and finally, philosophical. Within these methodologies, chapters explore such areas as the character of moral enquiry, the knowledge of good and evil, freedom and self-determination and moral philosophy. This is an interesting reissue, which will be of particular value to students researching the philosophy of ethics and morality.
A Study In Moral Theory
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Author : John Laird
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1988
A Study In Moral Theory written by John Laird and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1988 with categories.
After Virtue
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Author : Alasdair MacIntyre
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1990
After Virtue written by Alasdair MacIntyre and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1990 with categories.
A Study In Moral Problems
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Author : Bertram Mitchell Laing
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1922
A Study In Moral Problems written by Bertram Mitchell Laing and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1922 with Ethics categories.
A Study In Moral Problems
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Author : B. M. Laing
language : en
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Release Date : 2016-04-19
A Study In Moral Problems written by B. M. Laing and has been published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-04-19 with categories.
From the Preface. Throughout the following chapters there runs one central problem and upon it all the arguments converge. It is the problem of the relation between human action and natural law. It is an old one and one that has been dealt with by eminent thinkers: Kant and Lotze are but two. On account of the development of science with its insistence upon the reign of universal law, it has become in modern times a very important problem because of its bearing upon moral and social effort. The freedom that is somehow implied in morality has to be reconciled with the rigidity and uniformity that characterize natural law. That problem must be and is here regarded as a fundamental one, because it lies at the basis of all the more specific moral problems like evil, social conflicts, conflicts of values, the instability and uncertainty of moral progress and moral achievement; and because its solution will point a way to a solution of these difficulties. A discussion of the general problem of the relation between freedom and mechanism or natural law tends accordingly to take the character of studies in morality, though at the same time it becomes quite clear that metaphysical questions arise and cannot be avoided, while yet within the present limits they cannot be very adequately discussed. There arise questions about the structure of the universe and the nature of reality, as well as about the meaning of natural causality and natural conditions. Such questions demand full discussion; but at the moment that must be left aside, and only a reference can be made to certain points in these questions that are relevant to ethical studies, for they create difficulties as regards method. It has, for instance, been very generally held that the possibility of beginning with cause and of working up to purpose is extremely doubtful. The disparateness of natural cause and moral purpose, of natural law and moral law, renders such a procedure impossible. There is an insuperable difficulty in effecting a transition from laws which describe how things and people do act to laws which prescribe how people should act. The one type of law cannot be derived from the other. Ethics, in consequence, can never be purely inductive; and there remains a fundamental distinction between ethics and the inductive sciences. This view, however, may be questioned; and, by questioning it, it becomes possible to give a very intelligible account of human action and to obtain a clear explanation of many moral difficulties. The common assumption has been that it is the business of ethics to set up moral standards or norms; and it is this assumption that has created difficulties for ethical method. It has led to the demand that moral problems must be solved in moral terms or in terms of moral fact; and it has hampered ethical enquiry and hindered the solution of moral difficulties by prejudging how and where a solution is to be found instead of allowing the enquirer to seek a solution amongst a material that is likely to be most fruitful. The assumption may be questioned, and in the interests of moral theory must be so. The element of control or regulative power is already present in human action; and moral theory has not to create it. What ethics has to do is to interpret that element of control and to express its nature in formulae. Its task, accordingly, does not differ from the task of any positive science; it would do so only if it had to create a standard or control, or to impose a formula upon human action....
A Short History Of Ethics
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Author : Alasdair C. MacIntyre
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1998
A Short History Of Ethics written by Alasdair C. MacIntyre and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1998 with Ethics categories.
In this classic work, Alasdair MacIntyre guides the reader through the history of moral philosophy from the Greeks to contemporary times. He emphasizes the importance of a historical context to moral concepts and ideas. MacIntyre illustrates the relevance of philosophical queries on moral concepts enabling the reader to understand the importance of a historical account of ethics.
A Course Of Lectures Introductory To The Study Of Moral Philosophy
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Author : Renn Dickson Hampden
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1835
A Course Of Lectures Introductory To The Study Of Moral Philosophy written by Renn Dickson Hampden and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1835 with Ethics categories.
A Study Of Ethical Principles
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Author : James Seth
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1894
A Study Of Ethical Principles written by James Seth and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1894 with Ethics categories.