After Virtue

by MacIntyre, Alasdair C.

• ISBN13: 9780268035044
• ISBN10: 0268035040
• Edition: 3rd
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2007-03-01
• Publisher: UNIV OF NOTRE DAME PR

Author Biography

Alasdair Maclntyre is research professor of philosophy at the University of Notre Dame.

Table of Contents

Prologue: After Virtue after a Quarter of a Century	p. ix
Preface	p. xvii
A Disquieting Suggestion	p. 1
The Nature of Moral Disagreement Today and the Claims of Emotivism	p. 6
Emotivism: Social Content and Social Context	p. 23
The Predecessor Culture and the Enlightenment Project of Justifying Morality	p. 36
Why the Enlightenment Project of Justifying Morality Had to Fail	p. 51
Some Consequences of the Failure of the Enlightenment Project	p. 62
'Fact', Explanation and Expertise	p. 79
The Character of Generalizations in Social Science and their Lack of Predictive Power	p. 88
Nietzsche or Aristotle?	p. 109
The Virtues of Heroic Societies	p. 121
The Virtues of Athens	p. 131
Aristotle's Account of the Virtues	p. 146
Medieval Aspects and Occasions	p. 165
The Nature of the Virtues	p. 181
The Virtues, the Unity of a Human Life and the Concept of a Tradition	p. 204
From the Virtues to Virtue and after Virtue	p. 226
Justice as a Virtue: Changing Conceptions	p. 244
After Virtue: Nietzsche or Aristotle, Trotsky and St. Benedict	p. 256
Postscript to the Second Edition	p. 264
Bibliography	p. 279
Index	p. 283
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