What Happened in and to Moral Philosophy in the Twentieth Century? Philosophical Essays in Honour of Alasdair Macintyre

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One having survived the Academic Moral Philosophy of the Twentieth Century ...........17 1. Reading Alasdair MacIntyre Keeping philosophy Relevant and Humanistic .......37 Ethics at the Limits : A Reading of Dependent Rational Animals ...........57 Alasdair MacIntyre`s Revisionary aristotelianiasm : Pragmatism Opposed, Marxism Outmoded, Thomism Transformed ..........83 Alasdair Macintyre: Reflections on a Philosophical Identity, Suggestions for a Philosophical Project ...............122 Against the Self-Images of the Age: Macintyre and Logstrup..........145 2. Complementary and Competing Traditions Macintyre and the Emotivists .............165 Naturalism, Nihilism, and Perfectionism : Stevenson, Williams, and Nietzsche in Twentieth-Century Moral Philosophy .........200 Marxism and the Ethos of the Twentieth Century ..........221 Parallel Projects : Alasdair Macintyre`s Virtue Ethics, Thirteenth-Century Pastoral Theology ..........244 The Perfect Storm: On the Loss of Nature as a Normative Theonomic Principle in Moral Philosophy ................271 Forgiveness at the Limit: Impossible or Possible .............304 3. Thematic Analyses Evoluationary Ethics ................323 The social Epistemological Normalization of Contestable Narratives: Stories of Just Deserts .......358 History, Fetishism, and Moral Change ..........376 Relativism, Coherence, and the Problems of Philosophy ..............392 Ethics and the Evil of Being ..........423 The Inescapability of Ethics ............460 q