Tradition in the Ethics of Alasdair MacIntyre presents a stimulating intellectual history and expertly reasoned defense of this towering figure in contemporary American philosophy. Drawing on interviews and published works, Christopher Lutz traces MacIntyre’s philosophical development and refutes the criticisms of the major thinkers—including Martha Nussbaum and Thomas Nagel—who have most vocally attacked him. Permanently shifting the debate on MacIntyre’s oeuvre, Lutz convincingly demonstrates how MacIntyre’s neo-Aristotelian ethical thought provides an essential corrective to the contemporary discussions of relativism and ideology, while successfully drawing on the objectivity of Thomistic natural law.
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This manuscript presents the most substantial defense of MacIntyre against criticisms that are becoming tired through excessive repetition. It should serve to shift debate about MacIntyre's work to another and more worthwhile stage. (Kelvin Knight )
I quite think it’s the best book we have to date on Alasdair. (Hauerwas, Stanley )
Christopher Lutz has written a splendid and measured exposition of my work and has discussed some major criticisms of it with unusual insight into what is at issue. When, on some few occasions, I am not completely certain that I meant what he says that I meant, I generally think that I ought to have meant what he says that I meant. (Alasdair MacIntyre )
This is a first-rate study — feisty, well-argued, and passionate in defense of its subject. (William Haggerty Review Of Metaphysics )
I quite think it’s the best book we have to date on Alasdair. (Hauerwas, Stanley )
Christopher Lutz has written a splendid and measured exposition of my work and has discussed some major criticisms of it with unusual insight into what is at issue. When, on some few occasions, I am not completely certain that I meant what he says that I meant, I generally think that I ought to have meant what he says that I meant. (Alasdair MacIntyre )
This is a first-rate study — feisty, well-argued, and passionate in defense of its subject. (William Haggerty Review Of Metaphysics )
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Christopher Stephen Lutz is assistant professor at Saint Meinrad School of Theology.
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15 of 16 people found the following review helpful:
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By A. L. White "hermeneuticalsquare" (Towson, Maryland, United States) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)
This review is from: Tradition in the Ethics of Alasdair MacIntyre: Relativism, Thomism, and Philosophy (Hardcover)
This is a very illuminating work on MacIntyre's moral philosophy. The reader who has no familiarity with this ethicist will find a very clear introduction. Those who are already well-read in MacIntyre will find an interpreter who MacIntyre himself says has written "a splendid and measured exposition of my work and has discussed some major criticisms of it with unusual insight into what is at issue."I have read every page of this work and find it remarkably lucid and engaging. I appreciate how he laid out the story of MacIntyre's own philsophical development at the beginning and then gave a very clear exposition of "tradition" and "rationality," key terms in MacIntyre's philosophy. Lutz also gives a careful exposition of major objections to MacIntyre's philosophy, i.e., one camp claims that he is relativistic while another argues that he is fideistic. Lutz offers impressive replies to these and other objections. I was especially impressed with how he dealt with Martha Nussbaum. MacIntyre's thought has gone through many stages of development, from a fideistic Christian Marxist analytic philosopher, atheist Hume scholar, dissatisfied Aristotelian to a Catholic Thomist. If you need a map of this development, you could not do better than to read this work.
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Lutz has written an extremely insightful and lucid exposition of Alasdair MacIntyre's account of tradition-constituted rationality and its relationship to the enlightenment, Nietzschian, Aristotelian ethical traditions.
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