Selected essays / Alasdair MacIntyre.

By: MacIntyre, Alasdair C

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TextPublisher: Cambridge, UK ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2006-Description: v. <1-2> ; 24 cmISBN: 0521854377 (hbk.); 0521670616 (pbk.); 9780521854375; 9780521670616Subject(s): Philosophy | Political ethicsDDC classification: 101 LOC classification: B63 | .M33 2006Online resources: Publisher description | Table of contents only | Contributor biographical information

Contents:

v. 1. The tasks of philosophy -- v. 2. Ethics and politics. Part I. Learning from Aristotle and Aquinas -- Rival Aristotles: Aristotle against some Renaissance Aristotelians -- Rival Aristotles: Aristotle against some modern Aristotelians -- Natural law as subversive: the case of Aquinas -- Aquinas and the extent of moral disagreement -- Part II. Ethics -- Moral dilemmas -- Truthfulness and lies: what is the problem and what can we learn from Mill? -- Truthfulness and lies: what can we learn from Kant? -- Part III. The politics of ethics -- Three perspectives on Marxism: 1953, 1968, 1995 -- Poetry as political philosophy: notes on Burke and Yeats -- Some enlightenment projects reconsidered -- Social structures and their threats to moral agency -- Toleration and the goods of conflict.

Review: "Alasdair MacIntyre is one of the most creative and important philosophers working today. This volume presents a selection of his classic essays on ethics and politics, focusing particularly on the themes of moral disagreement, moral dilemmas, and truthfulness and its importance. The essays range widely in scope, from Aristotle and Aquinas and what we need to learn from them, to our contemporary economic and social structures and the threat which they pose to the realization of the forms of ethical life. They will appeal to a wide range of readers across philosophy and especially in moral philosophy, political philosophy, and theology."--Jacket.

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Includes bibliographical references and index.

v. 1. The tasks of philosophy -- v. 2. Ethics and politics.
Part I. Learning from Aristotle and Aquinas -- Rival Aristotles: Aristotle against some Renaissance Aristotelians -- Rival Aristotles: Aristotle against some modern Aristotelians -- Natural law as subversive: the case of Aquinas -- Aquinas and the extent of moral disagreement -- Part II. Ethics -- Moral dilemmas -- Truthfulness and lies: what is the problem and what can we learn from Mill? -- Truthfulness and lies: what can we learn from Kant? -- Part III. The politics of ethics -- Three perspectives on Marxism: 1953, 1968, 1995 -- Poetry as political philosophy: notes on Burke and Yeats -- Some enlightenment projects reconsidered -- Social structures and their threats to moral agency -- Toleration and the goods of conflict.

"Alasdair MacIntyre is one of the most creative and important philosophers working today. This volume presents a selection of his classic essays on ethics and politics, focusing particularly on the themes of moral disagreement, moral dilemmas, and truthfulness and its importance. The essays range widely in scope, from Aristotle and Aquinas and what we need to learn from them, to our contemporary economic and social structures and the threat which they pose to the realization of the forms of ethical life. They will appeal to a wide range of readers across philosophy and especially in moral philosophy, political philosophy, and theology."--Jacket.

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