Three Rival Versions of Moral Enquiry : Encyclopaedia, Genealogy, and Tradition / by Alasdair MacIntyre.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

MacIntyre, Alasdair C.

Series:

Gifford lectures ; 1988

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Thomists.

Ethics--Study and teaching.

Ethics.

Ethics--Methodology.

Encyclopaedia Britannica.

Catholic Church. Pope (1878-1903 : Leo XIII). Aeterni Patris.

Catholic Church.

Nietzsche, Friedrich Wilhelm, 1844-1900. Zur Genealogie der Moral.

Nietzsche, Friedrich Wilhelm.

Thomas, Aquinas, Saint, 1225?-1274--Ethics.

Thomas.

Augustine, of Hippo, Saint, 354-430--Ethics.

Augustine.

Aristotle--Ethics.

Aristotle.

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (x, 241 p. )

Other Title:

Gifford lectures.

Place of Publication:

Notre Dame, Indiana : University of Notre Dame Press, 2012.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Alasdair MacIntyre-whom Newsweek has called "one of the foremost moral philosophers in the English-speaking world"-here presents his 1988 Gifford Lectures as an expansion of his earlier work Whose Justice? Which Rationality? He begins by considering the cultural and philosophical distance dividing Lord Gifford's late nineteenth-century world from our own. The outlook of that earlier world, MacIntyre claims, was definitively articulated in the Ninth Edition of the Encyclopaedia Brittanica, which conceived of moral enquiry as both providing insight into and continuing the rational progress of mankind into ever greater enlightenment. MacIntyre compares that conception of moral enquiry to two rival conceptions also formulated in the late nineteenth century: that of Nietzsche's Zur Genealogie der Moral and that expressed in the encyclical letter of Pope Leo XIII Aeterni Patris. The lectures focus on Aquinas's integration of Augustinian and Aristotelian modes of enquiry, the inability of the encyclopaedists' standpoint to withstand Thomistic or genealogical criticism, and the problems confronting the contemporary post-Nietzschean genealogist. MacIntyre concludes by considering the implications for education in universities and colleges.

Contents:

Adam Gifford's project in context

Genealogies and subversions

Too many Thomisms?

Augustinian conception of moral enquiry

Aristotle and/or/against Augustine

Aquinas and the rationality of tradition

In the aftermath of defeated tradition

Tradition against encyclopaedia

Tradition against genealogy

Reconceiving the university as an institution and the lecture as a genre.

Notes:

Includes index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9780268160562

0268160562

9780268093686

0268093687

OCLC:

1016609364