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Why Human Beings Need the Virtues
"MacIntyre--one of the foremost ethicists of the past half-century--makes a sustained argument for the cetnrality, in well-lived human lives, of both ...
Highly controversial when it was first published in 1981, Alasdair MacIntyre's After Virtue has since established itself as a landmark work in contemp...
Alasdair MacIntyre is one of the most controversial philosophers and social theorists of our time. He opposes liberalism and postmodernism with the te...
Is there any cause or war worth risking one's life for? How can we determine which actions are vices and which virtues? MacIntyre, professor of philos...
Essays on Ideology and Philosophy
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A Study in Moral Theory
This classic and controversial book examines the roots of the idea of virtue, diagnoses the reasons for its absence in modern life, and proposes a pat...
A History of Moral Philosophy from the Homeric Age to the Twentieth Century
In this classic work, Alasdair MacIntyre guides the reader through the history of moral philosophy from the Greeks to contemporary times. He emphasize...
Selected Essays, Volume 1
This volume presents 10 of MacIntyre's most influential essays written over almost 30 years. They range over such topics as the issues raised by diffe...
Selected Essays
Alasdair MacIntyre is one of the most creative and important philosophers working today. This volume presents a selection of his classic essays on eth...
Contending that Marxism achieved its unique position in part by adopting the content and functions of Christianity, MacIntyre details the religious at...
How should we respond when some of our basic beliefs are put into question? What makes a human body distinctively human? Why is truth an important goo...
Encyclopaedia, Genealogy, and Tradition
Alasdair MacIntyreโwhom Newsweek has called "one of the foremost moral philosophers in the English-speaking world"โhere presents his 1988 Gifford ...
A Study in Moral Theory, Third Edition
Presents MacIntyre's most explicit defense of his approach to Thomistic metaphysics. This lecture follows MacIntyre's argument in After Virtue that mo...
An Essay on Desire, Practical Reasoning, and Narrative
MacIntyre explores the philosophical, political, and moral issues encountered in understanding what the virtues require in contemporary social context...
A Conceptual Analysis
First published in 1958, 'The Unconscious' still ranks as one of the most important and clearly written philosophical inquiries into the fundamental c...
A Selective History of the Catholic Philosophical Tradition
'What does it mean to be a human being?' Given this perennial question, Alasdair MacIntyre, one of America's preeminent philosophers, presents a compe...
Selected Essays. vol. 2
A Philosophical Prologue
MacIntyre is one of the major British philosophers of the post-war years. He is a convert to Roman Catholicism. Edith Stein was an intellectual of con...
An Exposition and a Polemic
The tasks of philosophy. Volume 1
Three Essays
Selected Writings 1953-1974
In the 1950s and '60s Alasdair MacIntyre was one of the most erudite members of Britain's Marxist left. This selection of his essays on Marxism from t...
Metaphysical Beliefs consists of three long essays, by Stephen Toulmin on 'Contemporary Scientific Mythology'; by Ronald Hepburn on 'Poetry and Religi...
'I have no doubt at all, that if philosophy is to prosper in the coming decades, it will have to treat with great seriousness that splendid seriousnes...
A Collection of Critical Essays
"This essay is divided into five chapters. In the first the questions initially posed about our desires and how we should think about them are questio...
Selections from David Hume
Presidential addresses of one of the largest philosophical societies in the world and the only American philosophical society not devoted to a particu...