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On MacIntyre's 'After Virtue' |
| Section: MODERN THOUGHT / THE RECOVERY OF VIRTUE |
| Author: Joseph Boyle |
| Publication: The world & I online |
| Issue Date: 12/1/1987 |
| Size: 5,993 Words, 37,363 Characters |
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No single person has contributed as much to the current revival of interest in the virtues as Alasdair MacIntyre. MacIntyre is an English philosopher who now teaches at Vanderbilt. Although trained and accomplished in the techniques of twentieth-century analytical philosophy, MacIntyre brings to his discussion of moral life a breadth of learning, particularly about the history and development of moral ideas, which allows him to break out of the somewhat narrow confines of contemporary moral philosophy.
His great book After Virtue deals extensively with the technical issues of moral philosophy. This is because MacIntyre is convinced that these issues are intimately related to the actual moral predicament in which we now find ourselves. Philosophers' work is considered, not as an is...
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...ves. But he is incorrect to dismiss the role of abstract reason in criticizing and improving the morality lived within a moral tradition. If that morality is reasonable, it can be judged by moral principle; if it cannot be judged by moral principle, then it is difficult to see how it can be judged really good, or how it could claim even the limited objectivity MacIntyre believes it to have.
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