Moral progress : a process critique of MacIntyre

Author(s)

• Bellantoni, Lisa

Bibliographic Information

Moral progress : a process critique of MacIntyre

Lisa Bellantoni

（SUNY series in philosophy）

State University of New York Press, c2000

• : alk. paper
• : pbk. : alk. paper

Note

Includes bibliographical references and index

Description and Table of Contents

Description

Moral Progress examines the challenge emotivism presents to contemporary ethicists. Focusing on the thought of Alasdair MacIntyre and Alfred North Whitehead, Lisa Bellantoni refutes MacIntyre's belief that a return to traditional values which once enjoyed broad social consensus will restore our moral center. She maintains that our enduring disputes over these values mark our moral progress, helping us to recreate values that will address contemporary situations. Contrasting MacIntyre's theory with Whitehead's, she concludes that in order to reinvigorate our moral inheritances we must endeavor not only to live well, but also to live better.

Table of Contents

Abbreviations Acknowledgments Introduction 1. The Emotivist Challenge MacIntyre's Alternative: The Virtue Tradition The Enlightenment Legacy The Thomist Synthesis The Rationality of Traditions 2. MacIntyre on Moral Traditions Virtue Traditions: Ancient and Modern Perspectivism and Practical Enquiry 3. Traditions of Enquiry: A Whiteheadian Alternative Speculative and Practical Reason Practical Reasoning and Aesthetic Order 4. Perspectivism and Practical Truths Tradition and Geneology Traditions: Past, Present, and Future Tradition and Adventure 5. Whitehead's Aesthetic Teleology Matters Metaphysical 6. Perspectivism and the Limits of Practical Enquiry Perspectivism and Practical Truth Perspectivism and Practical Progress Practical Rationalities and the Aesthetic Teleology 7. Practical Enquiries The Virtues of Traditions Moral Truths and Moral Progress Conclusion: Practical Rationalities Practical Traditions and Practical Truths Practical Rationalities and the Emotivist Challenge Practical Enquiries and Practical Progress Notes Bibliography Index

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Details

• NCID: BA48765758
• ISBN:
  • 0791444430
  • 0791444449
• LCCN: 99030969
• Country Code: us
• Title Language Code: eng
• Text Language Code: eng
• Place of Publication: Albany, N.Y.
• Pages/Volumes: xii, 126 p.
• Size: 23 cm
• Classification:
  • LCC : B1647.M124
  • DC21 : 170/.92
• Subject Headings:
  • LCSH : MacIntyre, Alasdair C
  • LCSH : Process philosophy
  • LCSH : Ethics
• Parent Bibliography ID:
  • BA00116235