Conversations on Ethics by Voorhoeve Alex;

Author:Voorhoeve, Alex;
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Published: 2011-08-15T00:00:00+00:00

References and further reading

Alasdair MacIntyre has authored or edited a number of books. Of greatest relevance to the topics discussed in the interview are After Virtue (London: Duckworth, 2nd edn 1985), Dependent Rational Animals (London: Duckworth, 1999), and Selected Essays. Volume 2: Ethics and Politics (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2006). The MacIntyre Reader, ed. Kelvin Knight (Notre Dame: University of Notre Dame Press, 1998), collects some of his most important work.

My commentary and questions are informed by David Solomon, ‘MacIntyre and Modern Moral Philosophy’, and Mark Murphy, ‘MacIntyre’s Political Philosophy’, both in Alasdair MacIntyre, ed. Mark Murphy (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2003): 114–51 and 152–75, respectively.

For the emotivist position, see C. L. Stevenson, Ethics and Language (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1944) and A. J. Ayer, ‘Critique of Ethics and Theology’, in Language, Truth and Logic (New York: Dover Publications, 1952). An interesting account of the consequentialist reasoning at work in the decisions to fire-bomb Japanese cities in World War II is offered in Errol Morris’s documentary The Fog of War.

I paraphrase and quote passages from Aristotle’s Nicomachean Ethics, 1168a1–18 and 1124b10–12, tr. Terence Irwin (Indianapolis: Hackett, 2nd edn 1999). For Aquinas’s account of natural law, see Summa Theologiae, first part of the second part (prima secundae partis), question 94. The Summa Theologiae is easily accessible online at <www.newadvent.org/summa>; a more recent, standard edition is the Latin text and English translation by the English Dominicans reissued by Cambridge University Press (2006).

Peter Singer discusses the comparative moral status of animals and humans in his Practical Ethics (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2nd edn 1993).

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