Virtue Ethics and Moral Knowledge: Philosophy of Language After MacIntyre and Hauerwas

by R. Scott Smith

We live in a time of moral confusion: many believe there are no overarching moral norms, and we have lost an accepted body of moral knowledge. Alasdair MacIntyre addresses this problem in his much-heralded restatement of Aristotelian and Thomistic virtue ethics; Stanley Hauerwas does so through his highly influential work in Christian ethics. Both recast virtue ethics in light of their interpretations of the later Wittgenstein's views of language...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0754609790
• ISBN13: 9780754609797
• Release Date: February 2003
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.