Ethics and politics selected essays. Volume 2 Volume 2 /

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 a...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: MacIntyre, Alasdair, 1929- (-)
Formato: Libro electrónico
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Cambridge, UK ; New York : Cambridge University Press 2006.
Colección:EBSCO Academic eBook Collection Complete.
Acceso en línea:Conectar con la versión electrónica
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Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Part I. Learning from Aristotle and Aquinas
  • Rival Aristotles: Aristotle against some Renaissance Aristotelians
  • Rival Aristotles: Aristotle against some modern Aristotelians
  • Natural law as subversive: the case of Aquinas
  • Aquinas and the extent of moral disagreement
  • Part II. Ethics
  • Moral dilemmas
  • Truthfulness and lies: what is the problem and what can we learn from Mill?
  • Truthfulness and lies: what can we learn from Kant?
  • Part III. The politics of ethics
  • Three perspectives on Marxism: 1953, 1968, 1995
  • Poetry as political philosophy: notes on Burke and Yeats
  • Some enlightenment projects reconsidered
  • Social structures and their threats to moral agency
  • Toleration and the goods of conflict.