After virtue
Subtitle: a study in moral theory
Edition: 2nd ed.
Publisher: University of Notre Dame Press
Published: 1984
Place of publication: Notre Dame, Ind
Language: eng
Format: paperback
Number of pages: 286
Copyright date: 1981, 1984
Subjects: Ethics.; Virtues.; Virtue.
First sentence: Imagine that the natural sciences were to suffer the effects of a catastrophe.
Description: Discusses the nature of moral disagreement, Nietzsche, Aristotle, heroic societies, and the virtue of justice. In a new chapter, MacIntyre elaborates his position on the relationship of philosophy to history, the virtues and the issue of relativism, and the relationship of moral philosophy to theology.
Notes: Bibliography: p. [279]-281.
Includes index.
Table of contents: title: Contents vii; title: Preface
pagenum: ix; label: 1
title: A Disquieting Suggestion
pagenum: 1; label: 2
title: The Nature of Moral Disagreement Today and the Claims of Emotivism
pagenum: 6; label: 3
title: Emotivism:  Social Content and Social Context
pagenum: 23; label: 4
title: The Predecessor Culture and the Enlightenment Project of Justifying Morality
pagenum: 36; label: 5
title: Why the Enlightenment Project of Justifying Morality Had to Fail
pagenum: 51; label: 6
title: Some Consequences of the Failure of the Enlightenment Project
pagenum: 62; label: 7
title: ‘Fact’, Explanation and Expertise
pagenum: 79; label: 8
title: The Character of Generalizations in Social Science and their Lack of Predictive Power
pagenum: 88; label: 9
title: Nietzsche or Aristotle?
pagenum: 109; label: 10
title: The Virtues in Heroic Societies
pagenum: 121; label: 11
title: The Virtues at Athens
pagenum: 131; label: 12
title: Aristotle’s Account of the Virtues
pagenum: 146; label: 13
title: Medieval Aspects and Occasions
pagenum: 165; label: 14
title: The Nature of the Virtues
pagenum: 181; label: 15
title: The Virtues, the Unity of a Human Life and the Concept of a Tradition
pagenum: 204; label: 16
title: Form the Virtues to Virtue and after Virtue
pagenum: 226; label: 17
title: Justice as a Virtue:  Changing Conceptions
pagenum: 244; label: 18
title: After Virtue:  Nietzsche or Aristotle, Trotsky and St. Benedict
pagenum: 256; label: 19
title: Postscript to the Second Edition
pagenum: 264; title: Bibliography
pagenum: 279; title: Index
pagenum: 283