Alasdair C. MacIntyre

Discusses the nature of moral disagreement, Nietzsche, Aristotle, heroic societies, and the virtue of of justice.

A Study in Moral Theory

After Virtue

[This book] develops an account of rationality and justice that is tradition specific.-http://undpress.nd.edu.

Whose Justice? Which Rationality?

According to the author of "After Virtue, " to flourish, humans need to develop virtues of independent thought and acknowledged social dependence. This book presents the moral philosopher's comparison of humans to other animals and his exploration of the impact of these virtues.

Why Human Beings Need the Virtues

Dependent Rational Animals

What is right ? What is wrong ? How do we decide ? To a remarkable extent, our decision-making is determined by the origins of the ethical ideas that we employ and the history of their development. A Short History of Ethicsis widely acknowledged to be the perfect introduction to the subject, presenting in concise form an insightful yet exceptionally complete history of moral philosophy in the West, from the Greeks to contemporary times. In clear and readable prose, Alasdair MacIntyre, one of the finest living philosophers, leads the reader towards a greater understanding of what lies behind our ethical decisions.

A History of Moral Philosophy from the Homeric Age to the Twentieth Century

A Short History of Ethics

Alasdair MacIntyre has written a selective history of the Catholic philosophical tradition, designed to show how belief in God informed and informs philosophical enquiry in different historical and social settings.

A Selective History of the Catholic Philosophical Tradition

God, Philosophy, Universities

Alasdair MacIntyre--whom Newsweek has called "one of the foremost moral philosophers in the English-speaking world"--here presents his 1988 Gifford Lectures as an expansion of his earlier work Whose Justice? Which Rationality? He begins by considering the cultural and philosophical distance dividing Lord Gifford's late nineteenth-century world from our own. The outlook of that earlier world, MacIntyre claims, was definitively articulated in the Ninth Edition of the Encyclopaedia Brittanica, which conceived of moral enquiry as both providing insight into and continuing the rational progress of mankind into ever greater enlightenment. MacIntyre compares that conception of moral enquiry to two rival conceptions also formulated in the late nineteenth century: that of Nietzsche's Zur Genealogie der Moral and that expressed in the encyclical letter of Pope Leo XIII Aeterni Patris. The lectures focus on Aquinas's integration of Augustinian and Aristotelian modes of enquiry, the inability of the encyclopaedists' standpoint to withstand Thomistic or genealogical criticism, and the problems confronting the contemporary post-Nietzschean genealogist. MacIntyre concludes by considering the implications for education in universities and colleges. Alasdair MacIntyre is research professor of philosophy at the University of Notre Dame. He is the author of numerous books, including After Virtue, A Short History of Ethics, and Whose Justice? Which Rationality?, all published by the University of Notre Dame Press.

Encyclopaedia, Genealogy, and Tradition

Three Rival Versions of Moral Enquiry

An Exposition and a Polemic

Herbert Marcuse

Contending that Marxism achieved its unique position in part by adopting the content and functions of Christianity, MacIntyre details the religious attitudes and modes of belief that appear in Marxist doctrine as it developed historically from the philosophies of Hegel and Feuerbach, and as it has been carried on by latter-day interpreters from Rosa Luxemburg and Trotsky to Kautsky and Lukacs. The result is a lucid exposition of Marxism and an incisive account of its persistence and continuing importance.

Marxism and Christianity

Essays on Ideology and Philosophy

Against the Self-images of the Age

El ser humano es vulnerable y, a menudo, debe su supervivencia a los demas. La dependencia de otras personas resulta evidente durante la primera infancia y la vejez. Aparte de eso, la vida de las personas se halla en ocasiones caracterizada, entre esas dos etapas, por lesiones o enfermedades que en algunos casos pueden producir la discapacitacion total. A lo largo de su historia, la filosofia de la moral en Occidente no ha prestado la suficiente atencion a la vulnerabilidad y dependencia del ser humano. Se ha contemplado a los principales agentes morales como sujetos racionales y saludables. Se ha pensado en los discapacitados como ellos en lugar de como nosotros. En esta obra original y fascinante, MacIntyre no solo corrige ciertos topicos de filosofos precedentes y contemporaneos, sino tambien sus propios prejuicios al respecto, al tiempo que defiende tres conjuntos de ideas: las semejanzas y rasgos comunes con miembros de otras especies animales inteligentes como el delfin; la importancia de las virtudes del reconocimiento de la dependencia, asi como de la autonomia; y la incapacidad del Estado Nacion moderno y la familia moderna a la hora de crear el tipo de asociacion politica y social capaz de conservar y transmitir deterrminadas virtudes.

Por qué los seres humanos necesitamos las virtudes

Animales racionales y dependientes

Edith Stein lived an unconventional life. Born into a devout Jewish family, she drifted into atheism in her mid teens, took up the study of philosophy, studied with Edmund Husserl, the founder of phenomenology, became a pioneer in the women's movement in Germany, a military nurse in World War I, converted from atheism to Catholic Christianity, became a Carmelite nun, was murdered at Auschwitz-Birkenau in 1942, and canonized by Pope John Paul II. Renowned philosopher Alasdair MacIntyre here presents a fascinating account of Edith Stein's formative development as a philosopher. To accomplish this, he offers a concise survey of her context, German philosophy in the first decades of the twentieth century. His treatment of Stein demonstrates how philosophy can form a person and not simply be an academic formulation in the abstract. MacIntyre probes the phenomenon of conversion in Stein as well as contemporaries Franz Rosenzweig, and Georg Luckas. His clear and concise account of Stein's formation in the context of her mentors and colleagues reveals the crucial questions and insights that her writings offer to those who study Husserl, Heidegger or the Thomism of the 1920's and 30's. Written with a clarity that reaches beyond an academic audience, this book will reward careful study by anyone interested in Edith Stein as thinker, pioneer and saint.

A Philosophical Prologue, 1913-1922

Edith Stein

A collection of writing by one of the most controversial philosophers and social theorists of our time, one who opposes liberalism and postmodernism with the teleological arguments of an updated Thomistic Aristotelian. The collection includes excerpts from and his own synopses of two famous books from the 1980s, After Virtue and Whose Justice? Which Rationality?, as well as the whole of several shorter works (one published for the first time in English) and two interviews. An introduction summarizes the development of MacIntyre's central ideas. Knight is a lecturer in politics at University of North London. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

The MacIntyre Reader

Frederick L. Will

In this collection of nine essays, Will demonstrates that a social account of human knowledge is consistent with, and ultimately requires, realism.

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