MacIntyre’s Virtue Ethics And It’s Contemporary Value And Significance

In today’s society, people pay much attention to the social system and structure of ethical issues research, but soften the individual virtue or virtue research." after virtue "was published in1981, written by MacIntyre,was Called the new turning point of ethical research.MacIntyre thought there were moral disorders and the crisis and it has the profound roots in today’s society. The moral crisis was mainly rooted in the loss of moral authority. Life’s moral judgment was no objective standard,which was pure subjective and emotional products.Because Unity moral code passed, the personal life of the moral stance,moral principles and value judgment were entirely no unified subjective choice,Faced to the outside,it was made moral constantly marginalized, tooled,qualitative change declined. Through profoundly analylizing contemporary moral crisis, MacIntyre reveals the crisis and social causes of this theory,which is that a series of consequential facts brought by the enlightenment thinkers demonstrating rationally and its failure to explore its social roots.That is, individual judgement or the standard of the choice is rooted in individual character characteristic change and emotions of geological of oneself.MacIntyre’s virtue ethics thought is mainly about:First they are virtue and practice. MacIntyre, pointed out that the practice had its historical reproductivity,which was the pattern of activity of the human cooperation, focusing on the pursuit of inner interests,ascending individual character, achieving own excellence, and not to get outside interests.Second it pursuits virtue and the individual’s whole life. MacIntyre refered to the individual self,that was complete in the long term life with practice and character, to possess and pursuit of happiness life tirelessly,and to realize the ultimate purpose, good.Like this behavior in the life is comprehensible.Third is virtue and traditional. MacIntyre’s discussed all kinds of virtue since ancient greeks to medieval.He thought we should return to the Aristotle’s traditional virtue. In the practice wemaintain the traditional virtue extension. About Virtue inheritance,we should link past, present and future into a continuous whole.MacIntyre’s theory of virtue has a contemporary value and significance. The contemporary value mainly displays that acIntyre’s theory of virtue is the good medicine to solve the contemporary moral crisis.The way of historical narration has The times meaning. To the individual and the society,it is also have important value, acIntyre’s virtue lies mainly in construction significance to China:today in market economy construction, we deal with ages and virtue to choose good and abandon ill.we cultivate the individual character and increase social virtue;To deepen moral theory research and pay attention to the cultivation of moral practice, at last we can promote the overall social harmonious development.