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Moral progress : a process critique of MacIntyre
- Title
- Moral progress : a process critique of MacIntyre / Lisa Bellantoni.
- Author
- Bellantoni, Lisa, 1969-
- Publication
- Albany : State University of New York Press, [2000], ©2000.
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| Text | Request in advance | B1647.M124 B45 2000 | Off-site |
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- Description
- xii, 126 pages; 23 cm.
- Summary
- "Moral Progress examines the challenge emotivism presents to contemporary ethicists. Focusing on the thought of Alasdair MacIntyre and Alfred North Whitehead, Lisa Bellantoni refutes MacIntyre's belief that a return to traditional values which once enjoyed broad social consensus will restore our moral center. She maintains that our enduring disputes over these values mark our moral progress, helping us to recreate values that will address contemporary situations.
- Contrasting MacIntyre's theory with Whitehead's, she concludes that in order to reinvigorate our moral inheritances we must endeavor not only to live well, but also to live better."--BOOK JACKET.
- Series Statement
- SUNY series in philosophy
- Uniform Title
- SUNY series in philosophy.
- Subjects
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 121-124) and index.
- Contents
- 1. The Emotivist Challenge -- 2. MacIntyre on Moral Traditions -- 3. Traditions of Enquiry: A Whiteheadian Alternative -- 4. Perspectivism and Practical Truths -- 5. Whitehead's Aesthetic Teleology -- 6. Perspectivism and the Limits of Practical Enquiry -- 7. Practical Enquiries -- Conclusion: Practical Rationalities.
- ISBN
- 0791444430 (alk. paper)
- 0791444449 (pbk. : alk. paper)
- LCCN
- 99030969
- OCLC
- ocm41278507
- Owning Institutions
- Columbia University Libraries