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Ethics in the Conflicts of Modernity: An Essay on Desire, Practical Reasoning, and Narrative

by Indiana) Alasdair Macintyre (university Of Notre Dame

  • Paperback
  • Publisher: Cambridge University Press
  • 15.8 x 22.4 x 1.8 cm

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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 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.
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  • Book Format

    Paperback

  • Publisher

    Cambridge University Press

  • Published

    January 2020

  • Weight

    454g

  • Dimensions

    15.8 x 22.4 x 1.8 cm

  • ISBN

    9781316629604

  • ISBN-10

    1316629600

  • Eden Code

    5091623

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