Name: Three Rival Versions of Moral Enquiry: Encyclopaedia, Genealogy, and Tradition
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Author: Alasdair Macintyre

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Three Rival Versions of Moral Enquiry: Encyclopaedia, Genealogy, and Tradition

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Physical Book

Author

Alasdair MacIntyre

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Language

English

Format

Paperback

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23.2x15.4x1.9 cm

Weight

0.42 kg.

ISBN

0268018774

ISBN13

9780268018771

Synopsis "Three Rival Versions of Moral Enquiry: Encyclopaedia, Genealogy, and Tradition"

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.

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Alasdair MacIntyre (Glasgow, Scotland, January 12, 1929) is a prestigious Scottish philosopher, widely known for his critical analyses of contemporary moral thought and his advocacy of Aristotelian ethics and community traditions. With a PhD in philosophy, MacIntyre gained prominence with the publication of After Virtue, a fundamental work that marked a before and after in moral philosophy, promoting the recovery of virtues in the ethical and social spheres. Throughout his career, he has been a professor at prominent universities in Europe and the United States, also contributing as the author of numerous works that address everything from Marxism and the Christian tradition to critiques of the Enlightenment. His thought, characterized by deep scholarship and an unusual ability to engage with various philosophical currents, positions him as an influential figure in contemporary philosophy.

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