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Three Rival Versions of Moral Enquiry: Encyclopaedia, Genealogy, and Tradition
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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 170.9034
EAN: 9780268018771
ISBN: 0268018774
Label: University of Notre Dame Press
Manufacturer: University of Notre Dame Press
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 241
Publication Date: August 31, 1991
Publisher: University of Notre Dame Press
Studio: University of Notre Dame Press
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Alasdair MacIntyrewhom 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, MacIntyre 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. MacIntyre 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. MacIntyre concludes by considering the implications for education in universities and colleges.
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Rating:  - Catholicism vying for a place at the table?
Trusted sources recommended this book and it indeed carries an air of great intelligence. The theme is also interesting--the fragmenting of the Victorian consensus. I learned a lot about that consensus, what it consisted of, and how figures I'd learned about contributed to its collapse. The author nicely contrasts an iconic statment of that consensus with Nietsche, using him as the evolutionary origin of those doing the collapsing. So far, so good. But I sensed a hidden agenda behind this book, which ... Read More
Rating:  - Clarifies the alternative streams of modern thought.
It is not often that a book of moral philosophy provides both a deep education in the history and content of thought, and a concrete set of alternatives to transform modern living.
In this book, MacIntryre argues that the three supposedly incommensurable approaches to moral life that are left on the table in modern moral philosophy ought to be acknowledged. The battle between the three approaches is too often papered over. A better method would be to acknowledge to students that the Universities ... Read More
Rating: - Clarifies the alternative streams of modern thought.
It is not often that a book of moral philosophy provides both a deep education in the history and content of thought, and a concrete set of alternatives to transform modern living.
In this book, MacIntryre argues that the three supposedly incommensurable approaches to moral life that are left on the table in modern moral philosophy ought to be acknowledged. The battle between the three approaches is too often papered over. A better method would be to acknowledge to students that the Universities ... Read More
Rating: - a essential text for those interested in moral philosophy
In Three Rival Versions Alasdair MacIntyre contends that there are three primary modes of moral inquiry. The first he calls encyclopeadia and is primarly a cateloging of moral principles understood as mirroring reality by post-Enlightenment moral philosophers. The second is the genealogical method which finds its orgin in Nietzsche's critique of morality. Although many think of these two modes of inquiry as exhaustive of the possible modes of inquiry, MacIntyre claims that there is a third alternative ... Read More
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