Three Rival Versions of Moral Enquiry: Encyclopaedia, Genealogy, and Tradition

by Alasdair MacIntyre

Book Overview

Alasdair MacIntyre--whom Newsweek has called "one of the foremost moral philosophers in the English-speaking world"--here presents his 1988 Gifford Lectures as an expansion of his earlier work Whose Justice? Which Rationality? He begins by considering the cultural and philosophical distance dividing Lord Gifford's late nineteenth-century world from our own. The outlook of that earlier world, MacIntyre claims, was definitively articulated in the...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0268018774
• ISBN13: 9780268018771
• Release Date: May 1994
• Publisher: University of Notre Dame Press
• Length: 252 Pages
• Weight: 0.93 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.1" x 9.1"