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Three rival versions of moral enquiry : encyclopaedia, genealogy, and tradition : being Gifford lectures delivered in the University of Edinburgh in 1988 / by Alasdair MacIntyre.

By: MacIntyre, Alasdair C
Material type: TextTextPublisher: Notre Dame, Ind. : University of Notre Dame Press, [1990]Copyright date: ©1990Description: x, 241 pages ; 24 cmContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 0268018715 :Other title: Gifford lecturesSubject(s): Ethics -- Methodology | Ethics -- Study and teaching | Aristotle -- Ethics | Augustine, of Hippo, Saint, 354-430 -- Ethics | Thomas, Aquinas, Saint, 1225?-1274 -- Ethics | Nietzsche, Friedrich Wilhelm, 1844-1900. Zur Genealogie der Moral | Catholic Church. Pope (1878-1903 : Leo XIII). Aeterni Patris | Thomists | Encyclopaedia BritannicaDDC classification: 170/.9/034 LOC classification: BJ37 | .M23 1990
Contents:
Adam Gifford's project in context -- Genealogies and subversions -- Too many Thomisms? -- Augustinian conception of moral enquiry -- Aristotle and/or/against Augustine -- Aquinas and the rationality of tradition -- In the aftermath of defeated tradition -- Tradition against encyclopaedia -- Tradition against genealogy -- Reconceiving the university as an institution and the lecture as a genre.

Includes index.

Adam Gifford's project in context -- Genealogies and subversions -- Too many Thomisms? -- Augustinian conception of moral enquiry -- Aristotle and/or/against Augustine -- Aquinas and the rationality of tradition -- In the aftermath of defeated tradition -- Tradition against encyclopaedia -- Tradition against genealogy -- Reconceiving the university as an institution and the lecture as a genre.

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