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Alasdair MacIntyre 
Three Rival Versions of Moral Enquiry 
Encyclopaedia, Genealogy, and Tradition

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Alasdair Mac Intyre—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 Lord Gifford’s late nineteenth-century world from our own. The outlook of that earlier world, Mac Intyre claims, was definitively articulated in the Ninth Edition of the Encyclopaedia Brittanica, which conceived of moral enquiry as both providing insight into and continuing the rational progress of mankind into ever greater enlightenment. Mac Intyre compares that conception of moral enquiry to two rival conceptions also formulated in the late nineteenth century: that of Nietzsche’s Zur Genealogie der Moral and that expressed in the encyclical letter of Pope Leo XIII Aeterni Patris.


The lectures focus on Aquinas’s integration of Augustinian and Aristotelian modes of enquiry, the inability of the encyclopaedists’ standpoint to withstand Thomistic or genealogical criticism, and the problems confronting the contemporary post-Nietzschean genealogist. Mac Intyre concludes by considering the implications for education in universities and colleges.

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Alasdair Mac Intyre is Senior Research Fellow at the Center for Contemporary Aristotelian Studies in Ethics and Politics at London Metropolitan University and Rev John A. O’Brien Senior Research Emeritus Professor of Philosophy at the University of Notre Dame. He is the author of numerous books, including After Virtue: A Study in Moral Theory, A Short History of Ethics, and Three Rival Versions of Moral Enquiry: Encyclopaedia, Genealogy, and Tradition, all published by the University of Notre Dame Press.
Langue Anglais ● Format EPUB ● Pages 252 ● ISBN 9780268160562 ● Taille du fichier 2.5 MB ● Maison d’édition University of Notre Dame Press ● Lieu IN ● Pays US ● Publié 1994 ● Téléchargeable 24 mois ● Devise EUR ● ID 5053366 ● Protection contre la copie Adobe DRM
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