What happened in and to moral philosophy in the twentieth century? : philosophical essays in honor of Alasdair Macintyre

What happened in and to moral philosophy in the twentieth century? : philosophical essays in honor of Alasdair Macintyre / edited by Fran O'Rourke.

"What Happened in and to Moral Philosophy in the Twentieth century? is a volume of essays originally presented at University College Dublin in 2009 to celebrate the eightieth birthday of Alasdair MacIntyre--a protagonist at the center of that very question. What marks this collection is the unu...

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Other Authors: O'Rourke, Fran
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Notre Dame, Ind. : University of Notre Dame Press, 2013.
Subjects:
MacIntyre, Alasdair C. > 1929-
2000 - 2099
Ethics, Modern > 21st century.
Philosophy > 21st century.
Ethics, Modern
Philosophy
Ethik
Etik.
Conference papers and proceedings
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Table of Contents:
  • Contents
  • Introduction
  • Chapter 1: On Having Survived the Academic Moral Philosophy of the Twentieth Century
  • Part I: Reading Alasdair MacIntyre
  • Chapter 2: Keeping Philosophy Relevant and Humanistic
  • Chapter 3: Ethics at the Limits
  • Chapter 4: Alasdair MacIntyre's Revisionary Aristotelianism
  • Chapter 5: Alasdair MacIntyre
  • Chapter 6: Against the Self-Images of the Age
  • Part II: Complementary and Competing Traditions
  • Chapter 7: MacIntyre and the Emotivists
  • Chapter 8: Naturalism, Nihilism, and Perfectionism
  • Chapter 9: Marxism and the Ethos of the Twentieth CenturyChapter 10: Parallel Projects
  • Chapter 11: The Perfect Storm
  • Chapter 12: Forgiveness at the Limit
  • Part III: Thematic Analyses
  • Chapter 13: Evolutionary Ethics
  • Chapter 14: The Social Epistemological Normalization of Contestable Narratives
  • Chapter 15: History, Fetishism, and Moral Change
  • Chapter 16: Relativism, Coherence, and the Problems of Philosophy
  • Chapter 17: Ethics and the Evil of Being
  • Chapter 18: The Inescapability of Ethics
  • Epilogue
  • Contributors
  • Index of Names

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