Just bought this today, /lit/. What am I in for, is 'virtue'

>>9137257

It was a good effort from MacIntyre, but his argument is too heavily dependent upon Aristotle. A bit dogmatic.

>>9137257
Virtue is cool and all, but how much is it really worth? If I get how much of what type how much can I sell it for?

>>9137752
what do you have to be like that man?

>>9137257
>As I understand it, he basically admits that Nietzsche more or less destroyed Enlightenment morality and virtue ethics, but hearkens back to Aristotle in their defence.

Not really.
Chapters 1 - 9 are about the Enlightenment project to justify morality, why the project failed, and what the consequences were.
Chapters 10 - 18 are MacIntyre giving a history of virtue ethics and then defending his own particular theory.

MacIntyre's thesis is that Nietzsche destroyed Enlightenment morality (Kant and Bentham, basically) but Aristotelian virtue ethics.

In my opinion, the first nine chapters are excellent, but MacIntyre's own theory is not so great. I think he has since changed his mind and become a more Thomistic virtue ethicist.

>>9140168
*but not Aristotelian virtue ethics

That is, he thinks that the Enlightenment thinkers and Nietzsche are both wrong because they're not Aristotelians.

Why are there still consequentialists and kantians? Virtue ethics has blown the fuck out of them since Anscombe started the revivall

>>9140105
>what do you have to be like that man?
I did it all for the dialectic mann, I said it for the philosophy of it all. Does your absence of a critical response suggest that your are founded dumb?

Should I try to work under MacIntyre?

>>9140182
>Virtue ethics has blown the fuck out of them since Anscombe started the revivall
On this topic, everybody read Anscombe's Modern Moral Philosophy which started it all, this is meant for you too, OP. It's a short read.

>>9141201
Only if you're a Catholic that knows his Aristotle, Bible, Augustine, Aquinas, Hegel, Marx (yes), Kierkegaard, Nietzsche (yes), Anscombe and MacIntyre inside out.