A A critical approach to Alasdair MacIntyre’s narrativism in “Ethics in the conflicts of modernity: an essay on desire, practical reasoning and narrative”

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  • María Agustina Juri Universidad Nacional de Cuyo

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.34024/prometeica.2020.20.10034

Keywords:

Narrativism. Tradition. Telos. Human Actions., Narrativism, Tradition, Telos, Human Action

Abstract

The aim of this article consists in analyzing Alasdair MacIntyre’s new approach to narrativism in his most recent work: Ethics in the Conflicts of Modernity An Essay on Desire, Practical Reasoning and Narrative (2016). In the first place, we make a historical review through the most relevant Macintyre’s Works on narrativism: After Virtue. A Study in Moral Theory (1981), Whose Justice, Which Rationality? (1988) y Three Rival Versions of Moral Enquiry. Enciclopaedia, Genealogy and Tradition (1990). Secondly, we explore the problem of narrativity that appears again in the work of 2016 to explain how does a Neoaristotelian agent exhibit his own rationality and how does he justify his judgements through a narrative. Also, we explore why narrative is more important than the concept of Tradition in this work and is more related to the telos of human life. Finally, we emphasize the the Macintyrean position against the now called expressivists.

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2020-01-20

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

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Juri, M. A. (2020). A A critical approach to Alasdair MacIntyre’s narrativism in “Ethics in the conflicts of modernity: an essay on desire, practical reasoning and narrative”. Prometeica - Journal of Philosophy and Science, 20, 46-55. https://doi.org/10.34024/prometeica.2020.20.10034