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On MacIntyre's 'After Virtue'
No single person has contributed as much to the current revival of interest in the virtues as Alasdair MacIntyre. MacIntyre is an English philosopher who now teaches at Vanderbilt. Although trained and accomplished in the techniques of twentieth-century analytical philosophy, MacIntyre brings to his discussion of moral life a breadth of learning, particularly about the history and development of moral ideas, which allows him to break out of the somewhat narrow confines of contemporary moral philosophy.
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17 pages, Kindle Edition
First published January 20, 2014
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Joseph M. Boyle Jr.
8 books1 followerJoseph M. Boyle, Jr.'s research interests were moral philosophy, ethical theory and applied ethics, natural law, Thomistic ethics and bioethics
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May 21, 2019
The good stuff is at the end
Primarily a summary of the arguments within "After Virtue," the interesting parts of this article are at the end when Boyle critically analyzes MacIntyre's moral particularism in a pluralistic world of abstract reason serves little function with the practices around virtues. This counter-argument does point to some possible limits in MacIntyre's thinking.
Primarily a summary of the arguments within "After Virtue," the interesting parts of this article are at the end when Boyle critically analyzes MacIntyre's moral particularism in a pluralistic world of abstract reason serves little function with the practices around virtues. This counter-argument does point to some possible limits in MacIntyre's thinking.
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