The human flourishing in neo-aristotelian key

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  • Jorge Maximiliano Loria Universidad Nacional de Mar del Plata

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.34024/prometeica.2020.20.10182

Keywords:

good and good, flowering, expressivism, neoristotelianism

Abstract

This article pursues a precise and limited objective: to describe in detail –and defend- the macintyrean conception of human flourishing as it has been exposed in her last book (2016). For this purpose it will be necessary to make a theoretical detour by dedicating a few pages to present the conceptions of the good and the good that stand out both from a pre-philosophical perspective and also from the currently predominant expressionist position in moral philosophy. As a whole, the argument highlights the continuity of our author's thinking, especially after the publication of After Virtue (1981). MacIntyre's work can be conceived as an extensive cultural fight against emotivism; as a struggle, prolonged in time, for trying to make the neo-Aristotelian tradition open again in our society. Everything leads to the understanding of the following principle: there is no human flowering possible without the cultivation of those qualities of character and understanding that allow us to reach the true goods of our nature.

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2020-01-21

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No. 20 (2020): Prometeica - nº 20 (02/2020 - 07/2020)

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Loria, J. M. (2020). The human flourishing in neo-aristotelian key . Prometeica - Journal of Philosophy and Science, 20, 56-67. https://doi.org/10.34024/prometeica.2020.20.10182
Received 2020-01-03
Accepted 2020-01-16
Published 2020-01-21