Ethics in the Conflicts of Modernity: An Essay on Desire, Pra .9

Name: Ethics in the Conflicts of Modernity: An Essay on Desire, Pra .9
Brand: Cambridge University Press

Cambridge University Press

Ethics in the Conflicts of ModernityAn Essay on Desire, Practical Reasoning, and Narrative\nAuthor(s): Alasdair MacIntyre\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Cambridge University Press, United Kingdom\nImprint: Cambridge University Press\nISBN-13: 9781107176454, 978-1107176454\nSynopsis\nAlasdair MacIntyre explores some central philosophical, political and moral claims of modernity and argues that a proper understanding of human goods requires a rejection of these claims. In a wide-ranging discussion, he considers how normative and evaluative judgments are to be understood, how desire and practical reasoning are to be characterized, what it is to have adequate self-knowledge, and what part narrative plays in our understanding of human lives. He asks, further, what it would be to understand the modern condition from a neo-Aristotelian or Thomistic perspective, and argues that Thomistic Aristotelianism, informed by Marx's insights, provides us with resources for constructing a contemporary p.