Alasdair C. MacIntyre Livres

MacIntyre is one of the major British philosophers of the post-war years. He is a convert to Roman Catholicism. Edith Stein was an intellectual of considerable importance in the period between the two World Wars, also canonised as a Saint. A Jewish convert to Catholicism, she died in the gas chambers of Auschwitz. Stein's published essays focused largely on the structure of the person and a careful articulation of the essential nature of community and its basis in our nature as persons. MacIntyre looks at Stein as both a theologian and philosopher, and reveals many of the fundamental issues in both disciplines.

Focusing on the Catholic philosophical tradition, Alasdair MacIntyre explores how belief in God has shaped philosophical inquiry throughout various historical and social contexts. The work highlights the interplay between faith and reason, illustrating how religious belief has influenced philosophical thought over time.

MacIntyre's project, here as elsewhere, is to put up a fight against philosophical relativism. . . . The current form is the 'incommensurability, ' so-called, of differing standpoints or conceptual schemes. Mr. MacIntyre claims that different schools of philosophy must differ fundamentally about what counts as a rational way to settle intellectual differences. Reading between the lines, one can see that he has in mind nationalities as well as thinkers, and literary criticism as well as academic philosophy. More explicitly, he labels and discusses three significantly different standpoints: the encyclopedic, the genealogical and the traditional. . . . [T]he chapters on the development of Christian philosophy between Augustine and Duns Scotus are very interesting indeed. . . . [MacIntyre] must be the past, present, future, and all-time philosophical historians' historian of philosophy. -The New York Times Book Revie

Alasdair MacIntyre, a significant contemporary philosopher, presents a collection of classic essays on ethics and politics. Focusing on moral disagreement, dilemmas, and truthfulness, the essays explore themes from Aristotle and Aquinas to modern economic structures, appealing to readers in philosophy, moral philosophy, political philosophy, and theology.

In this landmark work, MacIntyre returns to the 'Virtue'-based ethics of Aristotle in answer to the crisis of moral language caused by the Enlightenment.

MacIntyre explores the central philosophical, political and moral claims of modernity and argues that a proper understanding of human goods requires a rejection of these claims. This significant book by a distinguished philosopher will interest a wide readership in moral and political philosophy.

This work compares humans to other intelligent animals, drawing conclusions about human social life and our treatment of those whom it argues we should no longer call disabled. It shows that humans are independent but they are also dependent animals who must learn in order to stay independent. schovat popis

Offers a significant contribution written by one of the most important living philosophers. For the second edition Alasdair MacIntyre has included a new preface in which he examines his book thirty years on and considers its impact. It remains an important work, ideal for all students interested in ethics and morality.

MacIntyre deutet die Problemlagen und Aporien gegenwärtiger moralphilosophischer Diskussionen als Ausdruck einer katastrophalen moralischen Krise der Gegenwart. Sein Ausgangspunkt ist die Unfähigkeit unserer Zeit, zentrale moralische Fragen im allgemeinen Konsens zu lösen. Die echte Alternative zu Nietzsches Destruktion der Moral sieht er in einer neuen Anknüpfung an die bedeutendste Form einer vormodernen Ethik, die Tugendlehre des Aristoteles. Eine Geschichte der »Tugend« in der Antike und im Mittelalter unterbaut diesen Anspruch. Im ständigen Dialog mit philosophischen und soziologischen Autoren entwirft er die Perspektive einer neuen in lokale Gemeinschaften eingelassenen Tugendethik für unser Zeitalter.