Macintyre after virtue7/6/2023 The genius of Alasdair Macintyre, the storyteller, is that in his After Virtue we are the story. The task of the storyteller is to take us through his story, to point us to the beginning but also to show us the end. Worst of all, what makes a resolution so unlikely is that "we are in a condition which almost nobody recognizes and which perhaps nobody at all can recognize fully " (p. Modern-day ethicists flounder in confusion because all we possess " are the fragments of a conceptual scheme, parts which now lack those contexts from which their significance derived" (p. The setting for the story is the ravaged world of contemporary morality, a landscape marred by " a disquieting private arbitrariness," " the conceptual incommensurability of rival arguments," interminable moral debates, and anarchic subjectivism. Moore in Principia Ethica, continued by analytic philosophers, enshrined in emotivism, and recognized only by Nietzsche. It is the story of the corrosive dismantling of an Aristotelian ethics of virtue, begun in the Enlightenment, carried on by G. In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content:īOOK REVIEWS After Virtue.
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