What happened in and to moral philosophy in the twentieth century? : philosophical essays in honor of Alasdair Macintyre / edited by Fran O'Rourke.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

O'Rourke, Fran.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Ethics, Modern--21st century.

Ethics, Modern.

Philosophy--21st century.

Philosophy.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (544 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Notre Dame, Ind. : University of Notre Dame Press, 2013.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

What Happened in and to Moral Philosophy in the Twentieth Century? is a volume of essays that examine the various positions of contemporary moral philosophy.

Contents:

""Contents""; ""Introduction""; ""Chapter 1: On Having Survived the Academic Moral Philosophy of the Twentieth Century""; ""Part I: Reading Alasdair MacIntyre""; ""Chapter 2: Keeping Philosophy Relevant and Humanistic""; ""Chapter 3: Ethics at the Limits""; ""Chapter 4: Alasdair MacIntyre's Revisionary Aristotelianism""; ""Chapter 5: Alasdair MacIntyre ""; ""Chapter 6: Against the Self-Images of the Age""; ""Part II: Complementary and Competing Traditions""; ""Chapter 7: MacIntyre and the Emotivists""; ""Chapter 8: Naturalism, Nihilism, and Perfectionism""

""Chapter 9: Marxism and the Ethos of the Twentieth Century""""Chapter 10: Parallel Projects""; ""Chapter 11: The Perfect Storm""; ""Chapter 12: Forgiveness at the Limit""; ""Part III: Thematic Analyses""; ""Chapter 13: Evolutionary Ethics""; ""Chapter 14: The Social Epistemological Normalization of Contestable Narratives""; ""Chapter 15: History, Fetishism, and Moral Change""; ""Chapter 16: Relativism, Coherence, and the Problems of Philosophy""; ""Chapter 17: Ethics and the Evil of Being""; ""Chapter 18: The Inescapability of Ethics""; ""Epilogue""; ""Contributors""; ""Index of Names""

Notes:

Includes index.

ISBN:

9780268088668

0268088667

OCLC:

849947046