阿拉斯代尔·麦金太尔(Alasdair MacIntyre，1929-)是活跃在英美哲学界、伦理学界的著名哲学家、伦理学家，德性伦理学的主要代表人物。早年就读于英国曼彻斯特大学，先后执教于英国的曼彻斯特大学、利兹大学，美国的波士顿大学、维特比德大学等多所大学，担任过社会学和思想史教授、哲学和政治学教授，现执教于美国鹿特丹大学哲学系，是该校哲学系的麦克马洪和哈克荣誉席教授。麦金太尔自50年代起，发表了大量著述，主要著作有：《马克思主义与基督教》(1953年)、《论无意识》(1957年)、《伦理学简史》(1966年)、《对时代自我形像的批判》(1971年)、《追寻美德》(1981年)，《谁之正义？何种合理性？》(1988年)。

阿拉斯代尔·麦金太尔(Alasdair MacIntyre，1929-)是活跃在英美哲学界、伦理学界的著名哲学家、伦理学家，德性伦理学的主要代表人物。早年就读于英国曼彻斯特大学，先后执教于英国的曼彻斯特大学、利兹大学，美国的波士顿大学、维特比德大学等多所大学，担任过社会学和思想史教授、哲学和政治学教授，现执教于美国鹿特丹大学哲学系，是该校哲学系的麦克马洪和哈克荣誉席教授。麦金太尔自50年代起，发表了大量著述，主要著作有：《马克思主义与基督教》(1953年)、《论无意识》(1957年)、《伦理学简史》(1966年)、《对时代自我形像的批判》(1971年)、《追寻美德》(1981年)，《谁之正义？何种合理性？》(1988年)。

Alasdair MacIntyrewhom Newsweek has called "one of the foremost moral philosophers in the English-speaking world"here presents his 1988 Gifford Lectures as an expansion of his earlier work Whose Justice? Which Rationality? He begins by considering the cultural and philosophical distance dividing Lord Gifford's late nineteenth-century world from our own. The outlook of that earl...(展开全部)

How should we think about the "shape" of human history since the birth of cities, and where are we headed? Sociologist and historian John Torpey proposes that the "Axial Age" of the first millennium BCE, when some of the world's major religious and intellectual developments first emerged, was only one of three such decisive periods that can be used to directly affect present so...(展开全部)

[Copy finalized on Blurbwriter, with additional amendments: check there for latest version, don't use this one. - GMM, 16 Nov 04] Descartes has often been called the 'father of modern philosophy'. His attempts to find foundations for knowledge, and to reconcile the existence of the soul with the emerging science of his time, are among the most influential and widely studied in ...(展开全部)

"A splendid edition. Schneewind's illuminating introduction succinctly situates the Enquiry in its historical context, clarifying its relationship to Calvinism, to Newtonian science, and to earlier moral philosophers, and providing a persuasive account of Hume's ethical naturalism." -- Martha C Nussbaum, Brown University