![]() ![]() Teachers will find a book that can help to direct their students' reading and keep classroom discussions focused on the book's central concerns. Particularly Im interested in critiques from other Aristotelians who reject his account of the virtues, and those who totally disagree with his critique of modern moral discourse. Scholars will find the book useful as a general guide to MacIntyre's ethics. Ive recently finished reading Alasdair MacIntyres After Virtue and Im now looking for some critiques of his stances in the book. Students will find help to navigate the two main arguments of After Virtue, to understand its interpretation of history, and to engage its proposal for a form of ethics and politics that returns to the tradition of the virtues. Reading Alasdair MacIntyre's After Virtue provides a commentary that will be accessible to students, valuable to scholars, and useful to teachers. ![]() Because of its watershed nature, it has gained a wide readership in various fields but it treats a variety of issues in ways that are unfamiliar either to Marxists schooled in the social sciences or to Thomists schooled in medieval metaphysics. ![]() MacIntyre’s After Virtue is regularly cited as an example of an approach to virtue ethics that relies on false empirical presuppositions about human psychology. ![]() It precedes his move to Thomism, but already draws on Augustine and Aquinas. Alasdair MacIntyre’s After Virtue has been a prime target for the situationist critics. It follows his emergence from Marxism, but draws on Marxist sources and arguments. After Virtue is a watershed in MacIntyre's career. ![]()
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