Reading Alasdair MacIntyre's After virtue /
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Continuum,
[2012]
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Table of Contents:
- Cover; Halftitle; Title page; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Acknowledgments; Abbreviations; Introduction; Philosophy of science; Method; Reading AV; Two notes on notation; 1 MacIntyre and Marxism; Action versus behavior; The philosophy of the social sciences and the critique of Marxism; The origins of AV in the moral critique of Stalinism; Marx and MacIntyre versus individualism; "Liberalism," Marxism, and Aristotle; 2 Understanding the "Disquieting Suggestion"; The "Disquieting Suggestion"; Recognizing the catastrophe; Moral action and human action.
- Moving forward: History, realism, and tradition3 Summary of the critical argument; Overview of the critical argument; Chapter one: A "Disquieting Suggestion"; Chapter two: The nature of moral disagreement today and the claims of emotivism; Chapter three: Emotivism: Social content and social context; Chapter four: The predecessor culture and the enlightenment project of justifying morality; Chapter five: Why the enlightenment project of justifying morality had to fail; Chapter six: Some consequences of the failure of theenlightenment project; Chapter seven: "Fact," explanation, and expertise.
- Chapter eight: The character of generalizations in socialscience and their lack of predictive powerChapter nine: Nietzsche or Aristotle?; 4 Commentary on the critical argument; Conventional moral philosophy; Relativism?; Practical reasoning and moral judgment; Contemporary debates and disagreements; Emotivism in the gap between meaning and use; From epistemology to action; Four characters from emotivist culture; Practical rules and moral fi ctions; The false promise of a scientifi c alternative to moralphilosophy; Nietzsche or Aristotle?; 5 Summary of the constructive argument.
- Specifying AristotleDefining virtue; Applying the theory; 6 Commentary on the constructive argument; Action and practice as the subject matter of ethics; The development of practices in Alasdair MacIntyre'swork; Two problems: The unity of virtue and evil practices; Aristotle without metaphysics?; Metaphysics and practice in Aristotelian philosophy; Relativism?; Nostalgia?; Pessimism?; 7 Alasdair MacIntyre's constructive work since AV; Secondary literature on MacIntyre; Bibliography; Index.