Alasdair MacIntyre on practical philosophy : essential works / edited by Kelvin Knight, Peter Wicks.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Knight, Kelvin, editor.

Wicks, Peter, editor.

JSTOR (Online Service)

Series:

Book collections on Project MUSE.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

MacIntyre, Alasdair C.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xvi, 424 pages)

Place of Publication:

Notre Dame, Indiana : University of Notre Dame Press, [2026]

Contents:

Cover

Title Page

Copyright

Contents

Acknowledgements

Introduction

PART I Rethinking a Tradition of Practical Rationality

1 Plain Persons and Moral Philosophy: Rules, Virtues and Goods

2 Does Applied Ethics Rest on a Mistake?

3 Are Philosophical Problems Insoluble? The Relevance of System and History

4 The Idea of an Educated Public

5 Interview with Dmitri Nikulin

6 The Recovery of Moral Agency?

7 Conflicts of Desire

8 Interview with Alex Voorhoeve

9 Danish Ethical Demands and French Common Goods: Two Moral Philosophies

10 On Having Survived the Academic Moral Philosophy of the Twentieth Century

PART II Challenging Contemporary Politics

11 Breaking the Chains of Reason

12 The Theses on Feuerbach: A Road Not Taken

13 Politics, Philosophy and the Common Good

14 How Aristotelianism Can Become Revolutionary

15 The Irrelevance of Ethics

16 Four-or More?-Political Aristotles

17 Two Kinds of Political Reasoning

18 Happiness

19 Political Rhetoric in a Fractured Society

20 Common Goods, Modern States, Rights, and-Maritain

21 Practical Rationality and Irrationality and Their Social Settings

Notes

Index

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Electronic reproduction. New York Available via World Wide Web.

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ISBN:

9780268210571

0268210578

9780268210564

026821056X

Publisher Number:

40033182538

CIPO000338779

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