After Virtue¶
MacIntyre, A. (1981). After Virtue: A Study in Moral Theory. Notre Dame Press.
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Primes¶
- Teleology
- Psychology and action theory Goal-directed behavior; intentional action and practical reasoning; means-ends reasoning in decision-making; developmental understanding of function in children; theory-of-mind attribution of goals. Theology and religious thought Providence and cosmic purpose; the design argument and intelligent-design debates; eschatology and end-times doctrines; spiritual purpose in human life. Ethics and meta-ethics Virtue ethics' functional understanding of human flourishing (eudaimonia), recovered by MacIntyre (1981) as the teleological core of pre-Enlightenment moral theory; natural-law ethics grounding morality in human telos; consequentialist ethics as end-oriented evaluation.
This sourceMacIntyre After Virtue tradition community exemplar virtue substrate.
- Psychology and action theory Goal-directed behavior; intentional action and practical reasoning; means-ends reasoning in decision-making; developmental understanding of function in children; theory-of-mind attribution of goals. Theology and religious thought Providence and cosmic purpose; the design argument and intelligent-design debates; eschatology and end-times doctrines; spiritual purpose in human life. Ethics and meta-ethics Virtue ethics' functional understanding of human flourishing (eudaimonia), recovered by MacIntyre (1981) as the teleological core of pre-Enlightenment moral theory; natural-law ethics grounding morality in human telos; consequentialist ethics as end-oriented evaluation.
- Virtue Ethics
- The Aristotelian tradition grounds virtue in human nature and eudaimonia (Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics foundational); the modern revival via Anscombe 1958 (rejecting rule-based modern moral philosophy), MacIntyre 1981 (after virtue: tradition-embedded practices), Foot 2001 (natural goodness grounded in human form of life), and Hursthouse 1999 (virtue ethics as normative theory) has re-centered character and practical wisdom as primary explanatory categories.
This sourceMacIntyre After Virtue tradition community exemplar virtue substrate.
- The Aristotelian tradition grounds virtue in human nature and eudaimonia (Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics foundational); the modern revival via Anscombe 1958 (rejecting rule-based modern moral philosophy), MacIntyre 1981 (after virtue: tradition-embedded practices), Foot 2001 (natural goodness grounded in human form of life), and Hursthouse 1999 (virtue ethics as normative theory) has re-centered character and practical wisdom as primary explanatory categories.
- Visioning
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