追寻美德

简介

Published in 1981, the book opens with an image: imagine that the natural sciences had been destroyed and later pieced together from fragments whose context had been forgotten. That, MacIntyre claims, is the condition of modern moral language – which is why moral disputes seem interminable and morality looks like the expression of preferences, as emotivism holds. The Enlightenment project of justifying morality without a shared idea of the human good was bound to fail. MacIntyre reconstructs an Aristotelian tradition of the virtues, defined through social “practices”, the narrative unity of a human life and living traditions. The book became a central text of the communitarian critique of liberalism, although MacIntyre rejected that label.

联系

承接了

• 尼各马可伦理学约公元前340年年 · 亚里士多德
• 现代道德哲学1958 · G. E. M. 安斯康姆

批评了

• 论道德的谱系1887 · 弗里德里希·尼采
• 正义论1971 · 约翰·罗尔斯
• 无政府、国家与乌托邦1974 · 罗伯特·诺齐克