Ethics in the conflicts of modernity : an essay on desire, practical reasoning, and narrative / / Alasdair MacIntyre [[electronic resource]]

• Autore: MacIntyre Alasdair C.
• Pubblicazione: Cambridge : , : Cambridge University Press, , 2016
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (xiii, 322 pages) : digital, PDF file(s)
• Disciplina: 170
• Soggetto topico: Desire (Philosophy); Ethics; Philosophy and social sciences
• Classificazione: PHI005000
• Note generali: Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 15 Dec 2016).
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Preface -- 1 - Desires, goods, and ‘good’: some philosophical issues -- 2 - Theory, practice, and their social contexts -- 3 - Morality and modernity 4 - NeoAristotelianism developed in contemporary Thomistic terms: issues of relevance and rational justification -- 5 - Four narratives -- Index
• Sommario/riassunto: Alasdair MacIntyre explores some central philosophical, political and moral claims of modernity and argues that a proper understanding of human goods requires a rejection of these claims. In a wide-ranging discussion, he considers how normative and evaluative judgments are to be understood, how desire and practical reasoning are to be characterized, what it is to have adequate self-knowledge, and what part narrative plays in our understanding of human lives. He asks, further, what it would be to understand the modern condition from a neo-Aristotelian or Thomistic perspective, and argues that Thomistic Aristotelianism, informed by Marx's insights, provides us with resources for constructing a contemporary politics and ethics which both enable and require us to act against modernity from within modernity. This rich and important book builds on and advances MacIntyre's thinking in ethics and moral philosophy, and will be of great interest to readers in both fields.
• Titolo autorizzato: Ethics in the conflicts of modernity
• ISBN: 1-316-81952-3; 1-316-82096-3; 1-316-82120-X; 1-316-82144-7; 1-316-81696-6; 1-316-82168-4; 1-316-82240-0
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910150171303321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II