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# Ethics in the Conflicts of Modernity: An Essay on Desire, Practical Reasoning, and Narrative

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    Practical Reasoning, Common Goods, and a Well-Lived Life
  

*by J***S on Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on January 3, 2017*

Alasdair MacIntyre wrote this book for the well-educated layman. Relying on Aristotelian precepts, he simplifies many of the criticisms of modern ethics set forth in his earlier works (e.g. 
  
After Virtue: A Study in Moral Theory, Second Edition







  
  
    ), noting the various weaknesses of modern ethics, or what he calls "Morality." As an alternative, he focuses on the need for practical reasoning and the development of moral agency in pursuing common goods, the goods of work, community, and family. These goods are achieved in and through a variety of social relationships over the course of a life.Using four biographies, he illustrates the tensions and problems associated with finding one's way through life in more or less successful narratives, each with its own merits and imperfections. The people described are more or less reflective in their decision making when confronted with the realities about themselves or their situations at different points in their lives. There is an emphasis on the social context of those lives, the goods available to them, along with the people, culture, and institutions with which they interact. All of these factors inform their decision making, which include trade-offs at various points in their lives. For better or worse, those interactions and relationships inform their preferences and how they rank those preferences, in ways that are intimately tied to their roles and identities.This book is refreshing in many ways, citing examples as diverse as W. Edwards Deming, Quentin Tarantino, Cummins (the diesel engine company), and Sandra Day O'Connor among others. It describes the problems of practical reasoning, but does not prescribe general resolutions to those issues. Instead, it outlines the kinds of considerations, both individual and collective, that should be part of a well-lived life. Many of MacIntyre's earlier critiques of modernity can be spotted in this work, but the main consideration is outlining the preservation of rational moral agency in a culture dominated, and sometimes corroded, by grand theories of modern Morality.

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    Needs an Editor.
  

*by P***K on Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on April 16, 2019*

It may be cheeky of me to give an average review to Alisdair MacIntyre.  At his worst, he is an important philosopher.  His work here expands and elucidates his descriptions of emotivist philosophy.  The contrast with both Aristotle and Aquinas is developed further.  In other words, MacIntyre has reached the point where he is expounding rather than developing his framework.The result is a useful application of his main thesis, which is the modernistic abandonment of tradition, deep philosophy, and the systematic community of learners.But this is poorly written.  His writing has become ponderous.  He over-explains, and he lacks verve, or punch.  He is in need of an editor.Is this shallow?  Yes.  I accept that this is a shallow review.  But this is a short book, and for a short book to read like it was written in molasses, is sad, especially when earlier works crackle and are sharp.

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    Excellent and tremendously necessary
  

*by O***Y on Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on February 21, 2017*

MacIntyre caps his long career with a magnificent work written, not for the academic, but the everyday person. Yes, it is theoretical but such theory as is easily accessible by anyone. It could and should be taught in high schools. Yes, it is markedly Catholic, but if the argument is true, it could not otherwise be, and it indicts everything that is not markedly of some tradition. The biographies at the end are intriguing and imperatives for us living in the 21st century. Read it; share it. Let me not hear the f After Virtue again, for the book trumps that in many ways.

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