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Flourishing Through Virtue Macintyre's Ethical Vision of Human Emancipation

Flourishing Through Virtue Macintyre's Ethical Vision of Human Emancipation

$64
Author:Sibi Vattappara
ISBN 13:9789360657406
Binding:Hardbound
Language:English
Year:2025
Pages:xxxvi+271pp., 25cm
Series/Volumes:XLRI-Xavier School of Management
Published On:15th October 2025
Subject:Philosophy and Religion/Christianity

About the Book

MacIntyre’s neo-Aristotelian virtue ethics is meticulously examined as a transformative antidote to the moral fragmentation of our contemporary epoch one torn apart by rapid technological, cultural, and ecological upheavals. MacIntyre, whose profound legacy endured until his death on 21 May 2025 at the age of 96, criticises the Enlightenment’s rejection of teleology and tradition. This rejection has led to a crisis of ethical coherence, reducing moral discourse to subjective relativism and isolating individuals from communal meaning. Rooted in the interplay of practices, narrative unity, and tradition-constituted rationality, his philosophy reorients ethics toward the cultivation of virtuous character, offering a robust framework for human emancipation. The book critiques modernity’s rejection of teleology, revives the concept of virtue embedded in practices and traditions, and champions dialogical reasoning to achieve ethical coherence. Addressing critiques of relativism and essentialism.