Virtue Ethics and Contemporary Aristotelianism

Andrius Bielskis is Professor of Political Philosophy and Director of the Centre of Aristotelian Studies and Critical Thought at Mykolas Romeris University, Lithuania.Eleni Leontsini is Assistant Professor of the History of Philosophy at the University of Ioannina, Greece and Research Fellow at the Centre for Aristotelian Studies and Critical Theory, Mykolas Romeris University, Lithuania.Kelvin Knight is Senior Research Fellow at the Centre for Aristotelian Studies and Critical Theory, Mykolas Romeris University, Lithuania and Director of the Centre for Contemporary Aristotelian Studies in Ethics & Politics at London Metropolitan University, UK.

The essays collected in this volume will be of great value to readers interested in the validity of MacIntyre’s revival of Thomistic Aristotelianism and his engagement with modernity, capitalism, and twentieth-century philosophy. Critics and defenders of MacIntyre’s approach, including MacIntyre himself, are well represented, as are the thinkers through which the value of Aristotle’s ethics are discussed, including Marx, J. L. Austin, and Charles Taylor. The result is a fascinating exploration of some of the major issues, both practical and theoretical, confronting moral and social philosophy today.

• Introduction: The Aristotelian Tradition of Virtues, Andrius Bielskis (Mykolas Romeris University, Lithuania), Eleni Leontsini (University of Ioannina, Greece), and Kelvin Knight (London Metropolitan University, UK) Part I. The Aristotelian Tradition of Virtues1. Four – or More – Political Aristotles, Alasdair MacIntyre (University of Notre Dame, USA & London Metropolitan University, UK) 2. Plato and Aristotle on Human Nature and Society, Richard Stalley (University of Glasgow, UK)3. ‘Managers would not need subordinates and masters would not need slaves’: Aristotle’s Oikos and Oikonomia Reconsidered, Andrius Bielskis (Mykolas Romeris University & Kaunas University of Technology, Lithuania) 4. Aristotle and Two Senses of Happiness, Buket Korkut Raptis (University of Mugla, Turkey)5. ‘Going through Time Together’: Aristotelian Friendship and the Criterion of Time, Eleni Leontsini (University of Ioannina, Greece & Mykolas Romeris University, Lithuania)6. Byzantine Thomism: Aristotelianism and Thomas Aquinas’ Reception in Byzantium, Athanasia Glycofrydi-Leontsini (National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece)Part II. Modernity, Conflict and MacIntyrean Aristotelianism7. Aristotelianism, Austinianism and the Problem of the Good, Kelvin Knight (London Metropolitan University, UK)8. Virtues and the Common Good: Alasdair MacIntyre Reads Aristotle, Christof Rapp (Ludwig-Maximilians-University, Germany)9. Williams and MacIntyre on the Human Good and Ethical Objectivity, Apostolos Malakos (London Metropolitan University, UK)10. MacIntyre’s Nietzschean Anti-Modernism, Golfo Maggini (University of Ioannina, Greece)Part III. Moral Philosophy and Modern Social and Political Order11. From Field to Forest? Exploring Limits of Virtue Ethics, Joseph Dunne (Dublin City University, Ireland)12. Aristotle and the Politics of Recognition, Tony Burns (University of Nottingham, UK)13. Human Flourishing and Labour: Aristotle, MacIntyre, and Marx, Egidijus Mardosas (Mykolas Romeris University, Lithuania)14. Alasdair MacIntyre’s Aristotelianism: A Marxist Critique, Paul Blackledge (Northumbria University, UK)Index