Alasdair MacIntyre (Ethics (Ready Reference series))
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In his book After Virtue, Alasdair MacIntyre analyzes theories of morality with regard to culture and states that virtue is found within the community, in its ethos, or character, and not in the individual alone. He argues that the Enlightenment abandoned the belief in a divine origin of morality and overemphasized the individual. This leads, says MacIntyre, to a breakdown of the triad of ethics: “man-as-he-happens-to-be,” “man-as-he-would-be-if-he-realized-himself,” and a divine system of rules to be followed. Such grounding of morality in...
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After Virtue (Nonfiction)After Virtue (Philosophy)Three Rival Versions of Moral Enquiry (Literary Annual Reveiws)Whose Justice? Which Rationality? (Literary Annual Reviews)Whose Justice? Which Rationality? (Magill Book Reviews)
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