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Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Contents -- A Note on the Translation -- Foreword, by Pierre Manent -- Introduction -- ONE Politics: Impoverished Lives -- I. The Disappointments of Socialism and Communism -- II. From Marxism to Communitarianism? -- III. A New Conservatism -- TWO Philosophy: Collective Reasoning -- I. The Moral Critique of Stalinism -- II. Moral Life and Socially Established Practices -- III. The Philosophy of Tradition -- THREE Theology: The Community of Believers -- I. Are Wars of Religion as Dangerous as Secularization? -- II. The Absence of Liberal Spirituality -- III. The Theology of the Tradition -- Epilogue -- Notes -- Index of Names.

El proyecto filosófico de Alasdair MacIntyre ofrece una relectura de la ética de las virtudes de la tradición clásica que debe ser interpretada de manera revolucionaria, en contraposición a una lectura romántica o neoconservadora. La ruptura del orden moral que trajo consigo el advenimiento de la modernidad exige formas de resistencia política y económica ante el poder alienante del capitalismo liberal en su etapa globalizada. Según MacIntyre, entre la progenie del liberalismo moderno, encontramos a Nietzsche, quien desenmascaró la moral moderna como emotivismo. Sin embargo, Nietzsche no dejó de ser parte del proyecto moderno de justificación racional de la moral. De acuerdo con MacIntyre, la auténtica alternativa al proyecto moderno es la rearticulación de una ética de las virtudes en la tradición de Aristóteles y Tomás de Aquino. ; The philosophical project of Alasdair MacIntyre offers a version of Virtue Ethics that must be interpreted in a revolutionary way, as opposed to a romantic or neoconservative reading. The breakdown of the moral order brought about by the advent of modernity requires forms of political and economic resistance to the alienating power of liberal capitalism in the age of globalization. According to MacIntyre, among the progeny of modern liberalism, we find Nietzsche, who unmasked modern morality as emotivism. However, Nietzsche does not cease to be part of the modern project of rational justification of morality. According to MacIntyre, therefore, the authentic alternative to the modern proyect is the rearticulation of a virtue in the tradition of Aristotle and Aquinas.

According to Alasdair MacIntyre, there are three problems that pervade most contemporary political struggles and which have not been given sufficient attention: a) there is a conceptual incommensurability of the adverse arguments in the debates; b) the ongoing arguments represent impersonal rational arguments; c) the conceptually distinct premises of the used arguments have a great diversity of historical origins. From these three settings and their consequences, we will apply MacIntyre's critical reasoning to a specific set of conflicting arguments in the field of multiculturalism. Our aim is to explore the different conceptions and principles that underlie the positions seen and also to make a balance on the communitarian justification for a multicultural political model.

Since its publication in 1981, Alasdair MacIntyre's After Virtue has been recognised as a classic. Primarily a work of moral philosophy, it also draws on sociology, classics, political science and theology to effect a unique intellectual synthesis, and its combination of erudition and challenging, even provocative argument has made a significant impact throughout the humanities disciplines. This volume of new essays unpacks the influence of After Virtue on ethical and political theory, sociology and theology, and offers a multi-faceted exploration of its significance. The essays offer a way into MacIntyre's philosophy, and demonstrate how, rather than waning in influence over the past forty years, his most seminal text has found an ever-wider audience and continues to inspire controversy and debate in the humanities.