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Virtue Ethics and Moral Knowledge: Philosophy of Language after MacIntyre and Hauerwas

Virtue Ethics and Moral Knowledge: Philosophy of Language after MacIntyre and Hauerwas

Smith, R. Scott

Hardcover

Series: Ashgate New Critical Thinking in Philosophy

Philosophy

ISBN10: 0754609790
ISBN13: 9780754609797
Publisher: Routledge
Published: Feb 28 2003
Pages: 240
Weight: 1.14
Height: 0.56 Width: 6.14 Depth: 9.21
Language: English
We live in a time of moral confusion: many believe there are no overarching moral norms, and we have lost an accepted body of moral knowledge. Alasdair MacIntyre addresses this problem in his much-heralded restatement of Aristotelian and Thomistic virtue ethics; Stanley Hauerwas does so through his highly influential work in Christian ethics. Both recast virtue ethics in light of their interpretations of the later Wittgenstein's views of language. This book systematically assesses the underlying presuppositions of MacIntyre and Hauerwas, finding that their attempts to secure moral knowledge and restate virtue ethics, both philosophical and theological, fail. Scott Smith proposes alternative indications as to how we can secure moral knowledge, and how we should proceed in virtue ethics.

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