Despite MacIntyre's diagnosis of Kierkegaard's existential approach to ethics as unsuccessful, some of Kierkegaard's insights may support MacIntyre's own theses. In responding to MacIntyre's 'irrationalist' objection, the authors clarify the sense in which Kierkegaard's own conception of freedom is teleological and suggest that his understanding of the development of ethical personality involves a quest for narrative unity, a commitment to practices involving social values, and a self-understanding conditioned by historical reality-all of which are also central themes in MacIntyre's work on virtue ethics. This consensus is strongly anti-irrationalist and contemporary neo-Aristotelian virtue ethics, clarifying their common ground as well as their differences. Kierkegaard After MacIntyre reflects the emergence of a new consensus in Kierkegaard scholarship.

Kierkegaard After MacIntyre brings together both new and already published articles in this vein, with a new reply by Professor MacIntyre. MacIntyre's critique of Kierkegaard has become the focal point for several new interpretations of Kierkegaard that seek to answer MacIntyre. In his extraordinarily influential book on ethics, After Virtue, Alasdair MacIntyre maintained that Kierkegaard's notion of 'choosing' to interpret one's choices in ethical terms implies an arbitrary and irrational leap. Teachers will find a book that can help to direct their students' reading and keep classroom discussions focused on the book's central concerns.ĭownload Kierkegaard After MacIntyre Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle Scholars will find the book useful as a general guide to MacIntyre's ethics. Students will find help to navigate the two main arguments of After Virtue, to understand its interpretation of history, and to engage its proposal for a form of ethics and politics that returns to the tradition of the virtues. Reading Alasdair MacIntyre's After Virtue provides a commentary that will be accessible to students, valuable to scholars, and useful to teachers. Because of its watershed nature, it has gained a wide readership in various fields but it treats a variety of issues in ways that are unfamiliar either to Marxists schooled in the social sciences or to Thomists schooled in medieval metaphysics. It precedes his move to Thomism, but already draws on Augustine and Aquinas. It follows his emergence from Marxism, but draws on Marxist sources and arguments. Download Reading Alasdair MacIntyre s After Virtue Book in PDF, Epub and KindleĪfter Virtue is a watershed in MacIntyre's career.

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