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)

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)。

This collection of essays by noted philosopher Samuel Scheffler combines discussion of abstract questions in moral and political theory with attention to the normative dimension of current social and political controversies. In addition to chapters on more abstract issues such as the nature of human valuing, the role of partiality in ethics, and the significance of the distinct...(展开全部)

Nihilism is the logic of nothing as something, which claims that Nothing Is. Its unmaking of things, and its forming of formless things, strain the fundamental terms of existence: what it is to be, to know, to be known. But nihilism, the antithesis of God, is also like theology. Where nihilism creates nothingness, condenses it to substance, God also makes nothingness creative. ...(展开全部)

Nihilism is the logic of nothing as something, which claims that Nothing Is. Its unmaking of things, and its forming of formless things, strain the fundamental terms of existence: what it is to be, to know, to be known. But nihilism, the antithesis of God, is also like theology. Where nihilism creates nothingness, condenses it to substance, God also makes nothingness creative. ...(展开全部)

In recent years, emotions have become a major, vibrant topic of research not merely in the biological and psychological sciences but throughout a wide swath of the humanities and social sciences as well. Yet, surprisingly, there is still no consensus on their basic nature or workings. Ruth Leys’s brilliant, much anticipated history, therefore, is a story of controversy and dis...(展开全部)

In recent years, emotions have become a major, vibrant topic of research not merely in the biological and psychological sciences but throughout a wide swath of the humanities and social sciences as well. Yet, surprisingly, there is still no consensus on their basic nature or workings. Ruth Leys’s brilliant, much anticipated history, therefore, is a story of controversy and dis...(展开全部)