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After Virtue : A Study in Moral Theory, Third Edition /
"When After Virtue first appeared in 1981, it was recognized as a significant and potentially controversial critique of contemporary moral philosophy. Newsweek called it "a stunning new study of ethics by one of the foremost moral philosophers in the English-speaking world." Now, twen...
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Notre Dame, Ind. :
University of Notre Dame Press,
2007.
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| Edición: | 3rd ed. |
| Colección: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 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 of heroic societies
- The virtues of Athens
- Aristotle's 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 conceptions
- After virtue: Nietzsche or Aristotle, Trotsky and St. Benedict.