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...
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 his theses and arguments in other works, he has "as yet found no reason for abandoning the major contentions" of this book. He remains "committed to the thesis that it is only from the standpoint of a very different tradition, one whose beliefs and presuppositions were articulated in their classical form by Aristotle, that we can understand both the genesis and the predicament of moral modernity."
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Alasdair MacIntyre is research professor of philosophy at the University of Notre Dame. He is the author of numerous books, including Whose Justice? Which Rationality? (Notre Dame Press, 1988) and Three Rival Versions of Moral Enquiry: Encyclopaedia, Genealogy, and Tradition (Notre Dame Press, 1990).
The classical minds/ 2.5 I am a mere pleb I admit. Gave up after a quarter. (One of the) Driest books I’ve ever read. I don’t think that attitude is gonna help me much even if I did made myself to fin...The classical minds/ 2.5 I am a mere pleb I admit. Gave up after a quarter. (One of the) Driest books I’ve ever read. I don’t think that attitude is gonna help me much even if I did made myself to finish it.(展开)
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0 有用 QuietAmbassa 2022-12-21 07:24:35 美国
The classical minds/ 2.5 I am a mere pleb I admit. Gave up after a quarter. (One of the) Driest books I’ve ever read. I don’t think that attitude is gonna help me much even if I did made myself to fin... The classical minds/ 2.5 I am a mere pleb I admit. Gave up after a quarter. (One of the) Driest books I’ve ever read. I don’t think that attitude is gonna help me much even if I did made myself to finish it. (展开)
0 有用 Vita Nova 2024-07-12 17:58:28 河北
最值得读的ch. 14-15.
0 有用 布衣不绕 2019-03-02 02:44:31
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0 有用 Elsie 2020-06-15 13:32:35
Rlly impressed by MacIntyre’s elegant mastery of language 能把这么dry的philosophy写得这么美也是牛逼了