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After Virtue
Häftad, 2013
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Highly controversial when it was first published in 1981, Alasdair MacIntyre's After Virtue has since established itself as a landmark work in contemporary moral philosophy. In this book, MacIntyre sought to address a crisis in moral language that he traced back to a European Enlightenment that had …
After Virtue
A Study in Moral Theory, Third Edition
Häftad, 2007
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529 kr
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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." Since that time, the …
Ethics in the Conflicts of Modernity
An Essay on Desire, Practical Reasoning, and Narrative
Häftad, 2020
324 kr
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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 …
Short History of Ethics
A History of Moral Philosophy from the Homeric Age to the 20th Century
Häftad, 2002
263 kr
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A Short History of Ethics has over the past thirty years become a key philosophical contribution to studies on morality and ethics. Alasdair MacIntyre writes a new preface for this second edition which looks at the book 'thirty years on' and considers its impact. A Short History of Ethics guides …
Ethics in the Conflicts of Modernity
An Essay on Desire, Practical Reasoning, and Narrative
Inbunden, 2016
679 kr
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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 …
Against the Self-Images of the Age
Essays on Ideology and Philosophy
Häftad, 1989
615 kr
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Alasdair MacIntyre is one of the few professional philosophers whose writings span both technical analytical philosophy and those general moral or intellectual questions that laymen often suppose to be the province of philosophy but that are seldom discussed within its bounds. The unity of this …
Three Rival Versions of Moral Enquiry
Encyclopaedia, Genealogy, and Tradition
Häftad, 1994
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479 kr
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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?
Whose Justice? Which Rationality?
Häftad, 1988
537 kr
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Whose Justice? Which Rationality?, the sequel to After Virtue, is a persuasive argument of there not being rationality that is not the rationality of some tradition. MacIntyre examines the problems presented by the existence of rival traditions of inquiry in the cases of four major philosophers: …
Flight from Authority
Religion, Morality, and the Quest for Autonomy
Av Jeffrey Stout, Alasdair MacIntyre m. fl.
Häftad, 1981
615 kr
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Jeffrey Stout argues that modern thought was born in a crisis of authority, took shape in flight from authority, and aspired to autonomy from all traditional influence. The quest for autonomy was an attempt to begin completely anew. As such it was bound to fail.Stout traces the secularization of …
After Virtue
A Study in Moral Theory, Third Edition
Inbunden, 2027
520 kr
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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." Since that time, the …
Short History of Ethics
A History of Moral Philosophy from the Homeric Age to the Twentieth Century, Second Edition
Inbunden, 2022
1901 kr
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A Short History of Ethics is a significant contribution written by one of the most important living philosophers. For the second edition Alasdair MacIntyre has included a new preface in which he examines his book "thirty years on" and considers its impact. It remains an important work, ideal for …
New Essays in Philosophical Theology
Av Anthony Flew, Anthony Flew m. fl.
Häftad, 2012
341 kr
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'This book is among the most promising and most important in its particular field to be published within recent years. Indeed, there is no other in which men trained in the school of philosophy dominant in England today have sought as they do here to come to terms with Christian theology.' (British …
Short History of Ethics
A History of Moral Philosophy from the Homeric Age to the Twentieth Century, Second Edition
Häftad, 2000
553 kr
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A Short History of Ethics is a significant contribution written by one of the most important living philosophers. For the second edition Alasdair MacIntyre has included a new preface in which he examines his book "thirty years on" and considers its impact. It remains an important work, ideal for …
God, Philosophy, Universities
A Selective History of the Catholic Philosophical Tradition
Inbunden, 2009
586 kr
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'What does it mean to be a human being?' Given this perennial question, Alasdair MacIntyre, one of America's preeminent philosophers, presents a compelling argument on the necessity and importance of philosophy. Because of a need to better understand Catholic philosophical thought, especially in …
Against the Self-Images of the Age
Essays on Ideology and Philosophy
Inbunden, 2018
1537 kr
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Alasdair MacIntyre is one of the few professional philosophers whose writings span both technical analytical philosophy and those general moral or intellectual questions that laymen often suppose to be the province of philosophy but that are seldom discussed within its bounds. The unity of this …
Flight from Authority
Religion, Morality, and the Quest for Autonomy
Av Jeffrey Stout, Alasdair MacIntyre m. fl.
Inbunden, 1981
1537 kr
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Jeffrey Stout argues that modern thought was born in a crisis of authority, took shape in flight from authority, and aspired to autonomy from all traditional influence. The quest for autonomy was an attempt to begin completely anew. As such it was bound to fail.Stout traces the secularization of …
Hume's Ethical Writings
Selections from David Hume
Häftad, 1994
550 kr
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Writing in an age that exalted reason, the Scottish-born skeptic David Hume was the first modern philosopher to emphasize the role of psychology, or "passion," in the formulation of moral judgments and ethical systems. Included in this edition of his writings is the entire text of An Enquiry …
Marxism and Christianity
Häftad, 1984
537 kr
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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 …
Three Rival Versions of Moral Enquiry
Encyclopaedia, Genealogy, and Tradition
Inbunden, 1994
1537 kr
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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 …
Whose Justice? Which Rationality?
Inbunden, 1988
2265 kr
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Whose Justice? Which Rationality?, the sequel to After Virtue, is a persuasive argument of there not being rationality that is not the rationality of some tradition. MacIntyre examines the problems presented by the existence of rival traditions of inquiry in the cases of four major philosophers: …
After Virtue
A Study in Moral Theory, Third Edition
Inbunden, 2022
1901 kr
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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." Since that time, the …
Metaphysical Beliefs
Av Stephen Toulmin, Ronald W. Hepburn m. fl.
Häftad, 2012
326 kr
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During the mid-1950s, three books appeared which, while theologically unfashionable at the time, can now be seen to have pointed the way forward that theology had to take. New Essays in Philosophical Theology, edited by Antony Flew and Alasdair Maclntyre, has been available ever since, and has been …
Short History of Ethics
A History of Moral Philosophy from the Homeric Age to the 20th Century
Inbunden, 2002
1229 kr
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A Short History of Ethics has over the past thirty years become a key philosophical contribution to studies on morality and ethics. Alasdair MacIntyre writes a new preface for this second edition which looks at the book 'thirty years on' and considers its impact. A Short History of Ethics guides …
The Tasks of Philosophy: Volume 1
Selected Essays
Häftad, 2006
406 kr
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How should we respond when some of our basic beliefs are put into question? What makes a human body distinctively human? Why is truth an important good? These are among the questions explored in this 2006 collection of essays by Alasdair MacIntyre, one of the most creative and influential …
Ethics and Politics: Volume 2
Selected Essays
Häftad, 2006
390 kr
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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 collected together for the first time, focussing particularly on the themes of moral disagreement, moral dilemmas, and truthfulness …
The Tasks of Philosophy: Volume 1
Selected Essays
Inbunden, 2006
1351 kr
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How should we respond when some of our basic beliefs are put into question? What makes a human body distinctively human? Why is truth an important good? These are among the questions explored in this 2006 collection of essays by Alasdair MacIntyre, one of the most creative and influential …
Ethics and Politics: Volume 2
Selected Essays
Inbunden, 2006
1351 kr
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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 collected together for the first time, focussing particularly on the themes of moral disagreement, moral dilemmas, and truthfulness …
Three Rival Versions of Moral Enquiry
Encyclopaedia, Genealogy and Tradition
Häftad, 1990
388 kr
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