Against the Self-Images of the Age
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Against the Self-Images of the Age is a philosophical work by Alasdair MacIntyre that critically examines modern culture’s dominant self-understandings and challenges prevailing assumptions about rationality, morality, and social life.
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| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | book ⓘ |
| academicDiscipline |
philosophy
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political theory ⓘ social theory ⓘ |
| aim |
to challenge dominant self-images of modern culture
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to criticize prevailing conceptions of rationality ⓘ to question modern moral and social assumptions ⓘ |
| author | Alasdair MacIntyre NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| genre |
moral philosophy
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philosophy ⓘ social philosophy ⓘ |
| hasPart | Essays on Ideology and Philosophy NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| influencedBy |
Aristotle
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G. W. F. Hegel NERFINISHED ⓘ Karl Marx ⓘ Scottish Enlightenment NERFINISHED ⓘ Thomas Aquinas NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| mainTheme |
critique of modern culture
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critique of modern self-understanding ⓘ modernity ⓘ morality ⓘ rationality ⓘ social life ⓘ |
| notableConcept |
self-images of the age
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tradition-constituted rationality ⓘ |
| philosophicalPositionCritiqued |
emotivism
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liberal individualism ⓘ positivism ⓘ value-neutral social science ⓘ |
| philosophicalQuestion |
How do social practices shape self-understanding?
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What grounds moral judgment? ⓘ What is rationality? ⓘ |
| philosophicalTradition |
Aristotelianism
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Thomism NERFINISHED ⓘ analytic philosophy ⓘ |
| relatedWork |
A Short History of Ethics
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After Virtue NERFINISHED ⓘ Whose Justice? Which Rationality? NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| subject |
Enlightenment rationality
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critique of liberalism ⓘ epistemology ⓘ ethics ⓘ ideology ⓘ modern moral theory ⓘ political philosophy ⓘ social theory ⓘ |
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