6/10/2023 0 Comments Macintyre after virtue![]() ![]() Personal morality is not necessarily a matter where theory precedes action, yet it is human after all to try to understand our own behavior, and in that manner to develop explicit standards for ourselves, and then on further consideration to try to understand how we came to believe and act on them, and then finally why others have a different understanding of what constitutes ethical behavior.Įthical theory has applications on a social level as well, since it most often describes standards to judge how we relate to one another in a family or in society at large. ![]() ![]() How we determine what acts are moral and what morally objectionable obviously influences how we live our lives, if we are at all conscientious or self-aware (or possess a conscience). To subscribe now, go here.Įthical theory is the one area of philosophy that possesses immediate importance because we can apply its conclusions to actual living, in contrast, for example, to metaphysics. This essay appears in the Spring 2014 issue of Modern Age. ![]()
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