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We live in a time of moral confusion: many believe there are no overarching moral norms and that we have lost an accepted body of moral knowledge. Alasdair MacIntyre addresses this problem in his restatement of Aristotelian and Thomistic virtue ethics; Stanley Hauerwas does so through his highly influential work in Christian ethics. Both recast virtue ethics in light of their interpretations of the later Wittgenstein's views of language. This book systematically assesses the underlying presuppositions of MacIntyre and Hauerwas, finding that their attempts to secure moral knowledge and restate virtue ethics, both philosophical and theological, fail. Scott Smith proposes alternative indications as to how we can secure moral knowledge, and how we should proceed in virtue ethics.
We live in a time of moral confusion: many believe there are no overarching moral norms and that we have lost an accepted body of moral knowledge. Alasdair MacIntyre addresses this problem in his restatement of Aristotelian and Thomistic virtue ethics; Stanley Hauerwas does so through his highly influential work in Christian ethics. Both recast virtue ethics in light of their interpretations of the later Wittgenstein's views of language. This book systematically assesses the underlying presuppositions of MacIntyre and Hauerwas, finding that their attempts to secure moral knowledge and restate virtue ethics, both philosophical and theological, fail. Scott Smith proposes alternative indications as to how we can secure moral knowledge, and how we should proceed in virtue ethics.
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most rational tradition, unconstructed realm, linguistic constructionism, logically necessary self, virtue ethics presupposes, private language user, unconstructed world, linguistic ascriptions, ascription set, unconstructed reality, relativist charge, second first language, nominal community, epistemic tradition, particular linguistic community, last great philosopher, presuppose access, rational superiority, linguistic use, third presupposition, epistemic access, such selves, private mental states, moral knowledge, private language argument Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Stanley Hauerwas, After Virtue, Notre Dame, Which Rationality, Whose Justice, Ludwig Wittgenstein, Alasdair Maclntyre, New York, Hilary Putnam, Philosophical Investigations, Resident Aliens, Dallas Willard, Nancey Murphy, Summa Theologiae, Abingdon Press, Changing the Postmodern Subject, Community of Character, Jesus of Nazareth, Against the Nations, Master Argument of Maclntyre's After, New Testament, Alicia Juarrero Roque, Book Company, Jay Wallace, Mark Thiessen Nation New!
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We live in a time of widespread moral confusion. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
most rational tradition, unconstructed realm, linguistic constructionism, logically necessary self, virtue ethics presupposes, private language user, unconstructed world, linguistic ascriptions, ascription set, unconstructed reality, relativist charge, second first language, nominal community, epistemic tradition, particular linguistic community, last great philosopher, presuppose access, rational superiority, linguistic use, third presupposition, epistemic access, such selves, private mental states, moral knowledge, private language argument Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Stanley Hauerwas, After Virtue, Notre Dame, Which Rationality, Whose Justice, Ludwig Wittgenstein, Alasdair Maclntyre, New York, Hilary Putnam, Philosophical Investigations, Resident Aliens, Dallas Willard, Nancey Murphy, Summa Theologiae, Abingdon Press, Changing the Postmodern Subject, Community of Character, Jesus of Nazareth, Against the Nations, Master Argument of Maclntyre's After, New Testament, Alicia Juarrero Roque, Book Company, Jay Wallace, Mark Thiessen Nation New!
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- After Virtue: A Study in Moral Theory by Alasdair Macintyre on 21 pages
- After Virtue by Alasdair MacIntyre on 21 pages
- Ethics As Grammar: Changing the Postmodern Subject by Brad J. Kallenberg on 7 pages
- A Community of Character: Toward a Constructive Christian Social Ethic by Stanley Hauerwas on 4 pages
- Against the Nations: War and Survival in a Liberal Society by Stanley Hauerwas on 4 pages
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