Tradition in the Ethics of Alasdair MacIntyre: Relativism, Thomism, and Philosophy
Christopher Stephen Lutz
Rowman & Littlefield, 2009-08-28 - 217 pages
Tradition
in the Ethics of Alasdair MacIntyre presents a stimulating intellectual
history and expertly reasoned defense of this towering figure in
contemporary American philosophy. Drawing on interviews and published
works, Christopher Lutz traces MacIntyreOs philosophical development and
refutes the criticisms of the major thinkers_including Martha Nussbaum
and Thomas Nagel_who have most vocally attacked him. Permanently
shifting the debate on MacIntyreOs oeuvre, Lutz convincingly
demonstrates how MacIntyreOs neo-Aristotelian ethical thought provides
an essential corrective to the contemporary discussions of relativism
and ideology, while successfully drawing on the objectivity of Thomistic
natural law.
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