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Do you like Alasdair MacIntyre? Anonymous Mon Jul 20 23:04:00 2020 No.15917015 [Reply] [Original]

His early work was a little too Marxist for my tastes, but when "A Short History of Ethics" came out in 1966, I think he really came into his own, academically and philosophically. The whole text has a crisp set of new philosophical verbiage for the development of the Aretaic Turn and a new sheen of consummate professionalism that really gives his corpus a big boost.

He's been compared to Phillipa Foot, but I think MacIntyre has a far much more developed understanding of the Aristotle and a much more developed account of Natural Theology. In 1981, MacIntyre released this, "After Virtue", his most accomplished work.
I think, undisputedly, his most important concept is the concept of a 'tradition', an idea so foundational, most people probably don’t even read the chapter!

But they should, because it's not just about the cladistic development of moral schemes, which MacIntyre traces to better understand the nature of modern moral disagreement, and it’s not just about the importance of the continuation of shared projects, it's also foundational to the unity of an ordered human life.

Hey Paul!

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>>	Anonymous Mon Jul 20 23:29:35 2020 No.15917168 File: 13 KB, 472x255, am-ps-dorsia.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>15917015 TRY MAKING MORAL JUDGEMENTS IN THE ABSENCE OF THE PRACTICES OF CLASSICAL THEISM THAT GAVE THEM CONTEXT NOW, YOU FUCKING BASTARD!

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>>	Anonymous Mon Jul 20 23:37:20 2020 No.15917227 File: 64 KB, 758x644, 1594763753420.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>15917015 yes, i loved the batman movie. hes such a good actor

>>	Anonymous Tue Jul 21 05:22:56 2020 No.15918781 >>15917015 incredibly based thread

>>	Anonymous Tue Jul 21 07:13:38 2020 No.15919220 File: 42 KB, 544x499, 1488734803184 -.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] Why is /lit/ starting to post all the "great american thinkers" from my pol phil 101 class recently? >MacIntyre >Rawls >Nozick

>>	Anonymous Tue Jul 21 07:56:35 2020 No.15919419 File: 360 KB, 600x580, paypee GAHAHAHAHA.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>15917015 Thank you for making this thread, OP.

>>	Anonymous Tue Jul 21 07:58:15 2020 No.15919429 >>15917015 quality thread

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Anonymous Tue Jul 21 08:33:07 2020 No.15919606
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>>15917015
>>15917100

>>15919220
Would MacIntyre count as American? He did most of his greatest groundbreaking work in the States, but he was ultimately from Scotland and influenced by G.E.M. Anscombe, who was a a huge influence to a lot of British ethical philosophers (along with being waifu material).

>>	Anonymous Tue Jul 21 08:48:04 2020 No.15919684 >>15919606 His accent is weird and fucked up when you look it up on youtube. Only a hint of the scottish twang left. Mostly this weird RP english

>>	Anonymous Tue Jul 21 09:27:35 2020 No.15919845 >>15919606 >Would MacIntyre count as American? No, of course not.

>>	Anonymous Tue Jul 21 09:49:18 2020 No.15919956 >>15919606 He's Scottish, so he'd count as a Brit I suppose. Less insulting than being American but marginally so

>>	Anonymous Tue Jul 21 09:50:35 2020 No.15919961 Is "A Short History of Ethics" the best entry point?

>>	Anonymous Tue Jul 21 09:51:17 2020 No.15919963 basado

>>	Anonymous Tue Jul 21 12:39:27 2020 No.15920948 >>15917015 Moral realism isn't needed to have a positive ethical framework, it's getting tiring having to repeat this point all the time

>>	Anonymous Tue Jul 21 12:55:11 2020 No.15921052 >>15920948 Explain

>>	Anonymous Tue Jul 21 12:57:13 2020 No.15921065 File: 88 KB, 1000x500, _H_E2AP8Jkmx.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>15920948 seethe

>>	Anonymous Tue Jul 21 13:11:03 2020 No.15921156 >>15921052 If you don't believe that there are objective moral values, you can still have a certain ethical system that you promote in order to create a desirable social order.

>>	Anonymous Tue Jul 21 13:27:59 2020 No.15921257 >>15921156 yah but like your system won't withstand turbo autists in academia though, so revolution inc, faggot.

>>	Anonymous Tue Jul 21 13:50:56 2020 No.15921400 >>15919220 I've noticed the MacIntyre/Rawls/Nozick posts too, someone here is interested in analytic polphil/ethics. I'm ok with that. Parfit's probably going to get posted next.

>>	Anonymous Tue Jul 21 14:01:44 2020 No.15921470 >>15917015 I'm getting the impression that OP is most of the replies here ....