Three Opposing Views on Moral Inquiry

Author: (USA) Alasdair MacIntyre (MacIntyre, A.) (Author); Wan Junren et al. (Translator)
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Publish Date: 1999-03-01
Features: This book is another significant work by the renowned scholar Alasdair MacIntyre, who is active in the fields of philosophy and ethics in the United States and the United Kingdom. The entire book explores three schools of ethical inquiry in the European tradition: the Encyclopedic School, Genealogy, and Thomism based on Aristotle. The author argues that the Encyclopedic School replaces the history of human progress with the history of the Industrial Revolution, exhibiting a one-sided "Eurocentrism." While Genealogy overcomes the biases of the Encyclopedic School by starting from concepts, it lacks theoretical constructiveness. Only Thomism inherits the Aristotelian philosophy of medieval Aquinas and provides a sufficient evaluation for various modern moral inquiries.