MacIntyre on modernity and how it has marginalized the virtues
MacIntyre on modernity and how it has marginalized the virtues
Political philosophers have again become concerned with the role of the virtues in justifying social, political, and economic arrangements, and have explored the issue of which institutions can provide space for the virtues to flourish. In After Virtue, MacIntyre launched an attack on liberalism, arguing that the institutions it defends undermine the virtues. This paper examines MacIntyre's account and the responses it has provoked. It argues that MacIntyre makes an important criticism of liberalism that liberals have not yet fully answered, but which also creates problems for his own account.
0198752342
191-209
Mason, Andrew
6e0103d9-267a-456c-9150-256c588a5107
1996
Mason, Andrew
6e0103d9-267a-456c-9150-256c588a5107
Mason, Andrew
(1996)
MacIntyre on modernity and how it has marginalized the virtues.
In,
Crisp, Roger
(ed.)
How Should One Live?: Essays on the Virtues.
Oxford, UK.
Oxford University Press, .
(doi:10.1093/0198752342.003.0012).
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Political philosophers have again become concerned with the role of the virtues in justifying social, political, and economic arrangements, and have explored the issue of which institutions can provide space for the virtues to flourish. In After Virtue, MacIntyre launched an attack on liberalism, arguing that the institutions it defends undermine the virtues. This paper examines MacIntyre's account and the responses it has provoked. It argues that MacIntyre makes an important criticism of liberalism that liberals have not yet fully answered, but which also creates problems for his own account.
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Published date: 1996
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ISBN: 0198752342
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Roger Crisp
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