Three Rival Versions of Moral Enquiry: Encyclopaedia, Genealogy And Tradition (Paperduck) - Softcover

Macintyre, Alasdair

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0715623370 ISBN 13: 9780715623374

Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic, 1990

Synopsis

MacIntyre's project, here as elsewhere, is to put up a fight against philosophical relativism. . . . The current form is the 'incommensurability, ' so-called, of differing standpoints or conceptual schemes. Mr. MacIntyre claims that different schools of philosophy must differ fundamentally about what counts as a rational way to settle intellectual differences. Reading between the lines, one can see that he has in mind nationalities as well as thinkers, and literary criticism as well as academic philosophy. More explicitly, he labels and discusses three significantly different standpoints: the encyclopedic, the genealogical and the traditional. . . . [T]he chapters on the development of Christian philosophy between Augustine and Duns Scotus are very interesting indeed. . . . [MacIntyre] must be the past, present, future, and all-time philosophical historians' historian of philosophy. -The New York Times Book Revie

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About the Author:

Alasdair MacIntyre is Senior Research Fellow at the Centre for Contemporary Aristotelian Studies in Ethics and Politics (CASEP) at London Metropolitan University, UK, and an Emeritus Professor of Philosophy at the University of Notre Dame, USA. His publications include After Virtue (1981), Whose Justice? Whose Rationality? (1988) and Three Rival Versions of Moral Enquiry (1990).

About this edition

• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
• Publication date: 1990
• ISBN 10: 0715623370
• ISBN 13: 9780715623374
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 252