Why Business Cannot Be a Practice

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter I
2. Contents III
3. Editorial 1
4. Maclntyre's Aristotelianism
5. Maclntyre and the Polis 5
6. Men at Work: Poesis, Politics and Labor in Aristotle and Some Aristotelians 17
7. After Tradition?: Heidegger or Maclntyre, Aristotle and Marx 33
8. Maclntyre's Thomism
9. The Uniqueness of After Virtue (or 'Against Hindsight') 55
10. Maclntyre, Thomism and the Contemporary Common Good 75
11. From Voluntarist Nominalism to Rationalism to Chaos: Alasdair Maclntyre's Critique of Modern Ethics 91
12. Metaethics
13. Maclntyre's Search for a Defensible Aristotelian Ethics and the Role of Metaphysics 103
14. Maclntyre's Radical Intellectualism: The Philosopher as a Moral Ideal 121
15. Traditional Moral Knowledge and Experience of the World 139
16. Moral Philosophy, Moral Identity and Moral Cacophony: On Maclntyre on the Modern Self 157
17. The Critique of Liberalism and Capitalism
18. Utopias and the Art of the Possible 179
19. Misunderstanding Maclntyre on Human Rights 205
20. Alasdair Maclntyre's Contribution to Marxism: A Road not Taken 215
21. Why Business Cannot Be a Practice 229
22. Ethics, Markets, and Maclntyre 243
23. Reply
24. What More Needs to Be Said? A Beginning, Although Only a Beginning, at Saying It 261
25. Authors 282