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A Study Of Alastair Macintyre's Virtue Ethics

Posted on:2007-07-14Degree:MasterType:Thesis
Country:ChinaCandidate:S L ChenFull Text:PDF
GTID:2155360185480912Subject:Foreign philosophy
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Alastair Macintyre thinks that the ethical language of our socioty is in a grave disorder condition .He uses"Feeling doctrine"as the current ethical state token fors another purpose:All morality is no more than either feeling show or a partiality for something ,Everything is no more than showing the feeling of self with one kind of means that behaviour was accuseeed to other people .Why in this way ?The fundamental reason rests with the limitations of enlightenment reason ,The immediate reason is that the thinkers wholly failed to save Enlightenment. Then we have to go back up virtue tradition .He utilizes historic doctrine means and dates from successively the virtue tradition :Heroic age ,Athens ,Middle Ages ,he think it as the wealthyest vitality morality traditionthat in the history . Then He propose his fresh moral theory ,the core category consists of Practice ,Intrinsic benefit ,Character unity and the tradition . Objectively ,His moral theory possess the specified inspiration sense to resolves the current moral principles predicament ,such asMoral integrity conformity self ; The ethical value sense of community ; reproductivity of Morality traditions. Yet becausethe contemporary community is different of ancient essentially,the contemporary community is not the community in the classica sense, the later has the backdrop of virtue theory.Hence ,we suspect its vitality in the contemporary community.
Keywords/Search Tags:Virtue Ethics, Project of Saving Enlightenment, Ancient Virtue tradition, Practice, Intrinsic benefit, Life unity, Tradition
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