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" After virtue : "
by Alasdair MacIntyre.
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BL
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1036570
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b790940
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| Main Entry
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MacIntyre, Alasdair C.
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After virtue : : a study in moral theory /\ by Alasdair MacIntyre.
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2nd ed.
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| Publication Statement
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Notre Dame, Ind. :: University of Notre Dame Press,, 1984.
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xi, 286 pages ;; 24 cm
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0268006105
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: 0268006113
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: 9780268006105
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: 9780268006112
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 279-281) and index.
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| Contents
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A disquieting suggestion -- The nature of moral disagreement today and the claims of emotivism -- Emotivism: social content and social context -- The predecessor culture and the enlightenment project of justifying morality -- Why the enlightenment project of justifying morality had to fail -- Some consequences of the failure of the enlightenment project -- "Fact", explanation and expertise -- The character of generalizations in social science and their lack of predictive power -- Nietzsche or Aristotle? -- The virtues in heroic societies -- The virtues at Athens -- Aristotle's account of the virtues -- Medieval aspects and occasions -- The nature of the virtues -- The virtues, the unity of a human life and the concept of a tradition -- From the virtues to virtue and after virtue -- Justice as a virtue: changing conceptions -- After virtue: Nietzsche or Aristotle, Trotsky and St. Benedict -- Postscript to the second edition.
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Discusses the nature of moral disagreement, Nietzsche, Aristotle, heroic societies, and the virtue of justice. In a new chapter, MacIntyre elaborates his position on the relationship of philosophy to history, the virtues and the issue of relativism, and the relationship of moral philosophy to theology.
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Ethics.
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Virtue.
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Virtues.
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Ethics.
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Morale.
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Vertus.
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Morale.
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Vertus.
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Ethics.
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Ethics.
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Ethics.
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Ethik
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Etica.
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Filosofia.
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Morale.
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Relativisme moral.
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Tugend
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Vertus.
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Virtue.
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Virtue.
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Virtues.
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Virtues.
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Ethik.
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Tugend.
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| Dewey Classification
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170/.42
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| LC Classification
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BJ1012.M325 1984
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08.38bcl
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5,1ssgn
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CC 7200rvk
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CI 6440rvk
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