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MacIntyre, Alasdair C.

After virtue : a study in moral theory / by Alasdair MacIntyre - 2nd ed. - Notre Dame, Ind. : University of Notre Dame Press, 1984. - xi, 286 pages : 24 cm.

Includes index.

Bibliography: p. [279]-281.

• A disquieting suggestion
• The nature of moral disagreement today and the claims of emotivism
• Emotivism social content and social context
• The predecessor culture and the enlightenment project of justifying morality
• Why the enlightenment project of justifying morality had to fail
• Some consequences of the failure of the enlightenment project
• Fact explanation and expertise
• The character of generalizations in social science and their lack of predictive power
• Nietzsche or aristotle
• The virtues in heroic societies
• The virtues at Athens
• Aristotles account of the virtues
• Medieval aspects and occasions
• The nature of the virtues
• The virtues, the unity of a human life and the concept of a tradition
• From the virtues to virtue and after virtue
• Justice as a virtue: changing concepts
• After virtue: Nietzsche or aristotle, Trotsky and St. Benedict
• Postscript to the second edition


ISBN: 0268006105 : $16.95 0268006113 (pbk.) : $8.95

LCCN: 83040601

Subjects--Topical Terms:
Ethics.
Virtues.
Virtue.
After virtue

LC Class. No.: BJ1012 / .M325 1984

Dewey Class. No.: 170.42 / MAC