Description
| Product ID: | 9781107176454 |
| Product Form: | Hardback |
| Country of Manufacture: | US |
| Title: | Ethics in the Conflicts of Modernity |
| Subtitle: | An Essay on Desire, Practical Reasoning, and Narrative |
| Authors: | Author: Alasdair MacIntyre |
| Page Count: | 332 |
| Subjects: | History, History, Philosophy, Philosophy: epistemology and theory of knowledge, Ethics and moral philosophy, Social and political philosophy, Far-left political ideologies and movements, Philosophy, Philosophy: epistemology & theory of knowledge, Ethics & moral philosophy, Social & political philosophy, Marxism & Communism |
| Description: | Select Guide Rating MacIntyre explores the central philosophical, political and moral claims of modernity and argues that a proper understanding of human goods requires a rejection of these claims. This significant book by a distinguished philosopher will interest a wide readership in moral and political philosophy. 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. |
| Imprint Name: | Cambridge University Press |
| Publisher Name: | Cambridge University Press |
| Country of Publication: | GB |
| Publishing Date: | 2016-11-14 |
