MACINTYRE ALASDAIR

(P/B) A SHORT HISTORY OF ETHICS
What is right? What is wrong? How do we decide? To a remarkable extent, our decision-making is determined by the origins of the ethical ideas that we employ and the history of their development. A SHORT HISTORY OF ETHICS is widely acknowledged to be the perfect introduction to the subject, presenting in concise form an insightful yet exceptionally complete history of moral philosophy in the West, from the Greeks to contemporary times. In clear and readable prose, Alasdair MacIntyre, one of the finest living philosophers, leads the reader t...
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ΜΕΤΑ ΤΗΝ ΑΡΕΤΗ
Το Μετά την αρετή αποτελεί αναμφισβήτητα ένα από τα πιο σημαντικά έργα του 20ού αιώνα στο πεδίο της ηθικής φιλοσοφίας. Σε αυτό το κλασικό πια έργο, ο Άλασνταιρ Μακιντάιρ εξετάζει τις ιστορικές και εννοιολογικές ρίζες της ιδέας της αρετής, επισημαίνει τους λόγους της απουσίας της από την ιδιωτική και τη δημόσια ζωή, και διατυπώνει μια πρόταση για την ενδεχόμενη ανάκτησή της. Ενώ τα επιμέρους κεφάλαια εκτείνονται σε ένα ευρύ πεδίο, από τη στιγμή που συναρμόζονται συγκροτούν ισχυρό επιχείρημα για το βαρύ τίμημα που πλήρωσε η νεωτερικότητα με ...
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ΕΛΛΟΓΑ ΕΞΑΡΤΗΜΕΝΑ ΟΝΤΑ
Επειδή το ανθρώπινο αγαθό είναι αυτό που είναι θα πρέπει, προκειμένου να το επιτύχουμε, να αποκτήσουμε τις αρετές. Και επειδή οι αρετές είναι αυτό που είναι πρέπει, σε εκείνη ή την άλλη περίσταση, να κρίνουμε ή να πράξουμε με τούτο ή τον άλλο τρόπο. Έτσι, όταν θα έχουμε προοδεύσει αρκετά στην ηθική ζωή ώστε να έχουμε ενσωματώσει στην πρακτική μας την κατεύθυνση προς κάποια λίγο ως πολύ επαρκή σύλληψη του ανθρώπινου αγαθού και να έχουμε μετασχηματίσει τις ροπές και τα πάθη μας έτσι ώστε να έχουμε αποκτήσει κάτι περισσότερο από τα βασικά στο...
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(P/B) AFTER VIRTUE
Highly controversial when it was first published in 1981, Alasdair MacIntyre's After Virtue has since established itself as a landmark work in contemporary moral philosophy. In this book, MacIntyre sought to address a crisis in moral language that he traced back to a European Enlightenment that had made the formulation of moral principles increasingly difficult. In the search for a way out of this impasse, MacIntyre returns to an earlier strand of ethical thinking, that of Aristotle, who emphasised the importance of 'virtue' to the ethical...
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(P/B) AFTER VIRTUE
In this classic work, Alasdair MacIntyre examines the historical and conceptual roots of the idea of virtue, diagnoses the reasons for its absence in personal and public life, and offers a tentative proposal for its recovery. While the individual chapters are wide-ranging, once pieced together they comprise a penetrating and focused argument about the price of modernity. In the Third Edition prologue, MacIntyre revisits the central theses of the book and concludes that although he has learned a great deal and has supplemented and refined h...
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(P/B) DEPENDENT RATIONAL ANIMALS
Where should an account of the virtues begin? In "Dependent Rational Animals", Alasdair MacIntyre argues that we should begin with those facts of vulnerability and disability, and of consequent dependence on others, to which moral philosophers have generally given insufficient attention, and with the animal nature of human beings - that which exhibits their kinship to members of other intelligent species. He argues that it is by reference to these that we become able to understand the part played in our lives both by the virtues of indepen...
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(P/B) WHOSE JUSTICE? WHICH RATIONALITY?

(P/B) ETHICS AND POLITICS
Alasdair MacIntyre is one of the most creative and important philosophers working today. This volume presents a selection of his classic essays on ethics and politics collected together for the first time, focussing particularly on the themes of moral disagreement, moral dilemmas, and truthfulness and its importance. The essays range widely in scope, from Aristotle and Aquinas and what we need to learn from them, to our contemporary economic and social structures and the threat which they pose to the realization of the forms of ethical lif...
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(P/B) THE UNCONSCIOUS
This edition includes a substantial new preface by the author, in which he discusses repression, determinism, transference, and practical rationality, and offers a comparison of Aristotle and Lacan on the concept of desire. MacIntyre takes the opportunity to reflect both on the reviews and criticisms of the first edition and also on his own philosophical stance....
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