Author : Alasdair MacIntyre
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 337 pages
File Size : 23,28 MB
Release : 2016-11-14
Category : History
ISBN : 110717645X
MacIntyre explores the philosophical, political, and moral issues encountered in understanding what the virtues require in contemporary social contexts.
Author : Jill Kraye
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 343 pages
File Size : 41,70 MB
Release : 2006-03-30
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 1402030010
Over the past twenty years the transition from the late Middle Ages to the early modern era has received increasing attention from experts in the history of philosophy. In part, this new interest arises from claims, made in literature aimed at a less specialist readership, that this transition was responsible for the subsequent philosophical and theological problems of the Enlightenment. Philosophers like Alasdair MacIntyre and theologians like John Milbank display a certain nostalgia for the medieval synthesis of Thomas Aquinas and, consequently, evaluate the period from 1300 to 1700 in rather negative terms. Other historians of philosophy writing for the general public, such as Charles Taylor, take a more positive view of the Reformation but nevertheless conclude that modernity has been shaped by 1 conflicts which stem from early modern times. Ethics and moral thought occupy a central place in these theories. It is assumed that we have lost something – the concept of virtue, for instance, or the source of common morality. Yet those who put forward such notions do not treat the history of ethics in detail. From the historian’s perspective, their far-reaching theoretical assumptions are based on a quite small body of textual evidence. In reality, there was a rich variety of approaches to moral thinking and ethical theories during the period from 1400 to 1600.
Author : Alasdair MacIntyre
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 361 pages
File Size : 38,81 MB
Release : 2013-10-21
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 1623569818
Highly controversial when it was first published in 1981, Alasdair MacIntyre's After Virtue has since established itself as a landmark work in contemporary moral philosophy. In this book, MacIntyre sought to address a crisis in moral language that he traced back to a European Enlightenment that had made the formulation of moral principles increasingly difficult. In the search for a way out of this impasse, MacIntyre returns to an earlier strand of ethical thinking, that of Aristotle, who emphasised the importance of 'virtue' to the ethical life. More than thirty years after its original publication, After Virtue remains a work that is impossible to ignore for anyone interested in our understanding of ethics and morality today.
Author : Alasdair MacIntyre
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Page : 201 pages
File Size : 25,11 MB
Release : 2011
Category : Education
ISBN : 0742544303
'What does it mean to be a human being?' Given this perennial question, Alasdair MacIntyre, one of America's preeminent philosophers, presents a compelling argument on the necessity and importance of philosophy. Because of a need to better understand Catholic philosophical thought, especially in the context of its historical development and realizing that philosophers interact within particular social and cultural situations, MacIntyre offers this brief history of Catholic philosophy. Tracing the idea of God through different philosophers' engagement of God and how this engagement has played out in universities, MacIntyre provides a valuable, lively, and insightful study of the disintegration of academic disciplines with knowledge. MacIntyre then demonstrates the dangerous implications of this happening and how universities can and ought to renew a shared understanding of knowledge in their mission. This engaging work will be a benefit and a delight to all readers.
Author : Sheila McDonough
Publisher : Wilfrid Laurier Univ. Press
Page : 140 pages
File Size : 50,91 MB
Release : 2010-10-30
Category : Religion
ISBN : 1554587484
A study of modern Muslim ethics, focussed upon the lives and writings of Sayyid Ahmad Khan and Mawlana Mawdudi, this monograph sheds light upon the modern ethical problems of contemporary Islam. Sayyid Ahmad Khan, often called a liberal, a modernist, or an acculturationist, represents the "liberal" trend of Sunni Muslim ethics. Khan's approach borrows much from reason, yet for Khanreason and revelation are not in conflict. Reason guides the interpretation of Islam when revelation is insufficient. In contrast, Mawlana Mawdudi's fundamentalism is, at least in part, anti-rational; it depends upon revelation (as it comes to one man in particular) and is very autocratic. McDonough is concerned with Khan and Mawdudi, both writers within the Indo-Pakistan Muslim tradition. Their conflicting views, their differing interpretations of ethics that suit Islam in the contemporary world, exemplify the difficulties and turmoil faced by Muslims the world over. For these men, modernity has not spelled the end of Islam; yet each has found a different way of relating Islam to the present and the future in faithfulness to traditional Islam. This monograph will be of interest to students of contemporary Islam, as well as to those interested in questions of comparative ethics, for the liberal/fundamentalist conflicts outlined in this monograph are analogous to manifestations of the same dichotomy in all world religions.
Author : Andreas Wimmer
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 334 pages
File Size : 48,6 MB
Release : 2002-06-06
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780521011853
Andreas Wimmer argues that nationalist and ethnic politics have shaped modern societies to a far greater extent than has been acknowledged by social scientists. The modern state governs in the name of a people defined in ethnic and national terms. Democratic participation, equality before the law and protection from arbitrary violence were offered only to the ethnic group in a privileged relationship with the emerging nation-state. Depending on circumstances, the dynamics of exclusion took on different forms. Where nation building was successful , immigrants and ethnic minorities are excluded from full participation; they risk being targets of xenophobia and racism. In weaker states, political closure proceeded along ethnic, rather than national lines and leads to corresponding forms of conflict and violence. In chapters on Mexico, Iraq and Switzerland, Wimmer provides extended case studies that support and contextualise this argument.
Author : Robert B. Pippin
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 16,58 MB
Release : 2015-07-21
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 022625965X
Rigorism and the new Kant -- Robert Brandom's Hegel -- John McDowell's Germans -- Slavoj Zizek's Hegel -- Axel Honneth's Hegelianism -- Alexander Nehamas's Nietzsche -- Bernard Williams on Nietzsche on the Greeks -- Heidegger on Nietzsche on nihilism -- Leo Strauss's Nietzsche -- The expressivist Nietzsche -- Alasdair Macintyre's modernity.
Author : Kelvin Knight
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 12,39 MB
Release : 2016-11-21
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 311050734X
This book includes revisions of papers originally presented at the inaugural conference of the International Society for MacIntyrean Philosophy, on the theme of Alasdair MacIntyre's Revolutionary Aristotelianism: Ethics, Resistance and Utopia, hosted by the Human Rights and Social Justice Research Institute at London Metropolitan University. The papers selected are by fifteen leading international philosophers and political theorists. Writing from a variety of perspectives, they address MacIntyre's accounts of Aristotelianism, Thomism and Marxism, his virtue ethics and metaethics, the development of his philosophical project, and his critiques of managerialism, capitalism and liberalism. The book concludes with an extensive response by MacIntyre, in which he clarifies his past arguments, his present position, and his relation to rival theories of moral, political and social practice.
Author : Lawrence Cunningham
Publisher :
Page : 396 pages
File Size : 25,45 MB
Release : 2009
Category : Law and ethics
ISBN :
Intractable moral disagreements / Alasdair MacIntyre -- Does the natural law provide a universally valid morality? / Jean Porter -- Moral disagreement and interreligious conversation : the penitential pace of understanding / David A. Clairmont -- Prophetic rhetoric and moral disagreement / M. Cathleen Kaveny -- After intractable moral disagreement : the Catholic roots of an ethic of political reconciliation / Daniel Philpott -- Moral disagreement and the limits of reason : refections on Macintyre and Ratzinger / Gerald McKenny -- Ultimate ends and incommensurable lives in Aristotle / Kevin L. Flannery -- The foundation of human rights and canon law / John J. Coughlin -- The fearful thoughts of mortals : Aquinas on confict, self-knowledge, and the virtues of practical reasoning / Thomas Hibbs -- From answers to questions : a response to the responses / Alasdair MacIntyre.
Author :
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 227 pages
File Size : 21,17 MB
Release : 2020-07-20
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9004432582
An Ethical Modernity? offers a new view of Hegel’s doctrine of ethical life (Sittlichkeit) in relation to modernity. In this collection of essays, the authors investigate various aspects of this relation and its importance for today’s world.
