MacIntyre Flashcards
Marxism def.
Economic system with no classes. Government controls all resources and means of production to ensure equality.
Marxism position
Negative
Rejects as could not rationally reject Stalinism from Marxist viewpoint
Modern liberal individualism def.
Conservatism, liberalism, Marxism, and anarchism
Present autonomous individual as the unit of civil society
Modern liberal individualism view
Negative
None of these political theories can provide a well-developed conception of the common good; and none of them can adequately explain or justify any shared pursuit of any common good
Virtue ethics def.
Person rather than action based
Looks at the virtue or moral character of the person carrying out an action, rather than at ethical duties and rules, or the consequences of particular actions
Virtue ethics view
Positive
The most effective way to renew practical rationality and moral agency within communities
Practical rationality def.
The appropriate way of processing information through reasoning
Notable work
After Virtue
After Virtue position
Accuses society of having a culture of emotivism
Emotivism def.
A meta-ethical view that claims ethical sentences do not express positions but emotional attitudes
Moral culture def.
a particular constellation of ideas and feelings pertaining to the basic responsibilities and limitations of human beings
Position on contemporary moral culture
Negative
Believes it uses moral rhetoric to mask arbitrary choices
Moral rhetoric def.
the set of claims and assertions that deviants make to normalize and rationalize deviant behavior
Favourite reasoning
Teleological practical reasoning (over utilitarian or deontological moral reasoning)
Teleological practical reasoning def.
An account of a things purpose, e.g. a mug has a handle so you can lift it easily
