"Worlds of practice: MacIntyre's challenge to applied ethics"
by Higgins, C (2010)
Key Passage
For MacIntyre, practices are not simply local contexts where general dispositions may come in handy; they are themselves moral sources. They are sites, perhaps the key sites, of our moral education. For MacIntyre, we learn the point and substance of the virtues within particular practices. If we are interested in goodness, MacIntyre avers, then we must turn to the contexts of practices for insight. The alternative, meanwhile, is an emotivist culture and an arid, technical moral philosophy… (p.251)
Keywords
Macintyre. Applied Ethics, Business Ethics, Practice, Worlds Of Practice, VirtueThemes
On MacIntyreLinks to Reference
- https://experts.illinois.edu/en/publications/worlds-of-practice-macintyres-challenge-to-applied-ethics
- https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1467-9752.2010.00755.x
- http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-9752.2010.00755.x
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