Alasdair Maclntyre: The critique of modernity

Eugene Anowai

Abstract


Modern subjectivism and its isolation of each individual in the prison of his own mind insist on autonomous individuality that has only produced simulacra of morality. Maclntyre rejects the Enlightenment liberalism and absolute self determination that assert moral privacy of the person against the claims of any social collectivity. In this paper, I agree with Maclntyre that moral value is not determined by individual choice and decision. We have to go back to the Aristotelian ethics that is based on teleological and not mechanistic conception of man. I shall pitch camp with Maclntyre by submitting that the human being has a purpose and that is crucial to his doing good and avoiding evil.


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