Ethics and politics
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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| Formato: | Libro electrónico |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Cambridge, UK ; New York :
Cambridge University Press
2006.
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| Colección: | CUP ebooks.
Selected essays ; 2. |
| Acceso en línea: | Conectar con la versión electrónica |
| Ver en Universidad de Navarra: | https://innopac.unav.es/record=b39715346*spi |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Cover; Half-title; Title; Copyright; Contents; Preface; Acknowledgments; Part I Learning from Aristotle and Aquinas; Chapter 1 Rival Aristotles: Aristotle against some Renaissance Aristotelians; I; II; III; Chapter 2 Rival Aristotles: Aristotle against some modern Aristotelians; I; II; III; IV; Chapter 3 Natural law as subversive: the case of Aquinas; Chapter 4 Aquinas and the extent of moral disagreement; I; II; III; IV; V; VI; Part II Ethics; Chapter 5 Moral dilemmas; DILEMMAS AND DISAGREEMENTS ABOUT DILEMMAS; THE APPEAL TO FACTS; DILEMMAS, PRACTICAL RATIONALITY, AND INCONSISTENCY.
- THOMISM AND MORAL DILEMMASDILEMMAS AND THEORIES; Chapter 6 Truthfulness and lies: what is the problem and what can we learn from Mill?; I; II; III; Chapter 7 Truthfulness and lies: what can we learn from Kant?; I; II; III; IV; Part III The politics of ethics; Chapter 8 Three perspectives on Marxism: 1953, 1968, 1995; 1953 FROM THE STANDPOINT OF 1995; 1968 FROM THE STANDPOINT OF 1995; 1995; Chapter 9 Poetry as political philosophy: notes on Burke and Yeats; Chapter 10 Some Enlightenment projects reconsidered; I; II; III; Chapter 11 Social structures and their threats to moral agency.
- THE CASE OF JMORAL AGENCY; WHAT IS IT TO UNDERSTAND ONESELF AS A MORAL AGENT?; THE STRUCTURES OF COMPARTMENTALIZATION; ONCE MORE THE CASE OF J; Chapter 12 Toleration and the goods of conflict; WHAT QUESTIONS SHOULD WE ASK?; LOCKE'S PROPOSALS CONCERNING TOLERATION AND THE STATE; THE NATURE AND VALUES OF THE CONTEMPORARY STATE; TOLERATION AND THE CONTEMPORARY STATE; THE EXCLUSIONS AND INTOLERANCES NECESSARY FOR RATIONAL COMMUNAL DIALOGUE; UNSOLVED PROBLEMS; Index.
