‘To Know as We Are Known’: Locating an Ancient Alternative to Virtues

Mark Strom

Chapter 6 in Wise Management in Organisational Complexity, 2013, pp 85-105 from Palgrave Macmillan

Abstract: Abstract In After Virtue, Alasdair MacIntyre argues that a single moral tradition shaped ethical reasoning from Aristotle until the Enlightenment after which it became fragmented in service of individualism and ultimately ‘emotivism’ (2007, pp. 6–35).1 Notwithstanding the diversity of the writers and contexts that influenced it, MacIntyre believes this tradition — epitomised and canonised in Aristotle — shared a stable sense of ‘a cosmic order which dictates the place of each virtue in a total harmonious scheme of human life’ (2007, p. 142). Linking this cosmic order and the Aristotelian system of virtues were ‘background concepts of the narrative unity of human life’ (228). According to MacIntyre, this narrative gave stable meaning to the virtues for the better part of two millennia.

Keywords: Classical Literature; Grand Rapid; Wicked Problem; Classical Philosophy; Aristotelian Virtue (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2013
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DOI: 10.1057/9781137002655_6

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