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Volgens Alasdair MacIntyre bevindt de wereld zich in een morele chaos, mensen weten niet meer wat goed is en wat niet. In Volgens de deugd stelt hij d

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Fabulous historical novel from the award-winning author

MacIntyre's project, here as elsewhere, is to put up a fight against philosophical relativism. . . . The current form is the 'incommensurability, ' so

Examines the historical and conceptual roots of the idea of virtue, diagnoses the reasons for its absence in personal and public life, offering a tent

A Short History of Ethics has over the past thirty years become a key philosophical contribution to studies on morality and ethics. Alasdair MacIntyre

Writing in an age that exalted reason, the Scottish-born skeptic David Hume was the first modern philosopher to emphasize the role of psychology, or "

Alasdair MacIntyre-whom Newsweek has called "one of the foremost moral philosophers in the English-speaking world"-here presents his 1988 Gifford Lect

Edith Stein was an intellectual of considerable importance in the period between the two World Wars. This is a study of Stein's development as a theol

Offers a significant contribution written by one of the most important living philosophers. For the second edition Alasdair MacIntyre has included a n

Highly controversial when it was first published in 1981, Alasdair MacIntyre's After Virtue has since established itself as a landmark work in contemp

'What does it mean to be a human being?' Given this perennial question, Alasdair MacIntyre, one of America's preeminent philosophers, presents a compe

Widely acknowledged as the perfect introduction to ethics, this book presents in concise and accessible form an insightful yet exceptionally complete

Alasdair MacIntyre has written a selective history of the Catholic philosophical tradition, designed to show how belief in God informed and informs ph

A Short History of Ethics is a significant contribution written by one of the most important living philosophers. For the second edition Alasdair MacI

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

This work compares humans to other intelligent animals, drawing conclusions about human social life and our treatment of those whom it argues we shoul