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Aquinas's Virtue Ethics
Aquinas’s Virtue Ethics
Aristotelian tradition
Aristotle's Metaphysical Biology
Aristotle’s Metaphysical Biology
Author_R. Scott Smith
Behavioral Account
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Category=QDTQ
christian
Christian Philosophical Theology
Christian Virtue Ethics
critique of virtue ethics theories
Epistemic Access
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ethical relativism
Extra-linguistic Realm
Good Life
Humans Qua Humans
Language Independent World
Linguistic Ascriptions
linguistic philosophy
MacIntyre's Account
MacIntyre's Claim
MacIntyre's Solution
MacIntyre’s Account
MacIntyre’s Claim
MacIntyre’s Solution
Midas Touch
Mind's Contact
Mind’s Contact
moral epistemology
Moral Knowledge
Naturalistic Evolutionary Theory
Nominal Community
philosophical theology
Private Language Argument
Private Language Users
Relativist Charge
Unconstructed Reality
Unconstructed Realm
Virtue Ethics
Wittgenstein ethics
Product details
- ISBN 9780754609797
- Weight: 600g
- Dimensions: 156 x 234mm
- Publication Date: 28 Feb 2003
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
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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. This book systematically assesses the underlying presuppositions of MacIntyre and Hauerwas, finding that their attempts to secure moral knowledge and restate virtue ethics, both philosophical and theological, fail. Scott Smith proposes alternative indications as to how we can secure moral knowledge, and how we should proceed in virtue ethics.
R. Scott Smith, Biola University, USA
