Ethics in the Conflicts of Modernity: An Essay on Desire, Practical Reasoning, and Narrative

by Alasdair MacIntyre

Book Overview

Alasdair 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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1316629600
• ISBN13: 9781316629604
• Release Date: February 2020
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 334 Pages
• Weight: 1.22 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.2" x 8.8"