After virtue : a study in moral theory / Alasdair MacIntyre.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

MacIntyre, Alasdair C.

Contributor:

The Library of Chaim Potok (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Ethics.

Virtues.

Virtue.

Penn Provenance:

Potok, Adena (donor) (Potok Collection copy)

Physical Description:

ix pages, 1 unnumbered page, 252 pages, 8 unnumbered pages ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Notre Dame, Indiana : University of Notre Dame Press, [1981]

Contents:

A disquieting suggestion

The nature of moral disagreement today and the claims of emotivism

Emotivism: social content and social context

The predecessor culture and the Enlightenment Project of justifying morality

Why the Enlightenment Project of justifying morality had to fail

Some consequences of the failure of the Enlightenment Project

'Fact', explanation and expertise

The character of generalisations in social science and their lack of predictive power

Nietzsche or Aristotle?

The virtues in heroic societies

The virtues at Athens

Aristotle's account of the virtues

Medieval aspects and occasions

The nature of the virtues

The virtues, the unity of a human life and the concept of a tradition

From the virtues to virtue and after virtue

Justice as a virtue: changing conceptions

After virtue: Nietzsche or Aristotle, Trotsky and St. Benedict.

Notes:

"American edition 1981 University of Notre Dame Press ..."

Includes bibliographical references (pages [246]-248) and index.

Local Notes:

Potok Collection copy presented to the Penn Libraries by Adena Potok.

Potok Collection copy has underlines and marginal marks.

ISBN:

0268006628 :

0268006040

OCLC:

7007608