Course
GP129 - Alasdair MacIntyre's Ethical Theory
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General Information
| Course Type | On Campus |
| Course Category | P5. Seminar |
| Description | Teaching Objective: This seminar will help students carefully read selected works by Alasdair McIntyre, understand his diagnosis of the modern moral crisis, and explore the academic critique of his "relativism" and his responses. Through this seminar, students will be able to grasp the context and threads of McIntyre's arguments, conduct a comparative evaluation of his own arguments and those of his critics, and explore possible ethical approaches that value difference while avoiding relativism in contemporary pluralistic societies. Teaching Content: Alasdair MacIntyre is recognized as one of the most distinguished contemporary philosophers in ethics and social politics. He advocates for practical reasoning as a form of inquiry grounded in the tradition and emphasizes its communitarian dimensions. His unique interpretation of the thought of Aristotle and Thomas Aquinas places ethics within a historical and socio-political context, which has also led to accusations of relativism. This seminar, based primarily on a careful reading of After Virtue; Whose Justice? What Rationality?, and The Dependent Rational Animal, explored the following questions: - In MacIntyre's view, what are the root causes of the difficulties encountered by various argumentative approaches in modern ethics in its quest for a universally rational basis for morality? - Does a historical perspective necessarily lead to relativism? Does McIntyre make a sufficiently effective distinction between "relativity" and "relativism"? - How do we understand the place of human suffering, vulnerability, and dependency in ethical research? - How can we become independent practical reasoners? - If virtue must be learned within a community, how do we address the challenges and reshaping of traditional community boundaries posed by today's migration, global mobility, and digital communities? - If understanding and inquiry into morality is always rooted in historical traditions and sociocultural contexts, can we still advocate for universal moral principles? What are the paths to this universal inquiry? Teaching Mode: Reading and Class Discussion Assessment Mode: Written Paper |
| College Organization Structure | Holy Spirit Institute of Philosophy |
| Course Tuition Fee | 1840.00 |
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