After virtue: a study in moral theory

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Content: Prologue -- Preface -- 1. A Disquieting Suggestion -- 2. The Nature of Moral Disagreement Today and the Claims of Emotivism -- 3. Emotivism: Social Content and Social Context -- 4. The Predecessor Culture and the Enlightenment Project of Justifying Morality -- 5. Why the Enlightenment Project of Justifying Morality Had to Fail -- 6. Some Consequences of the Failure of the Enlightenment Project -- 7. 'Fact', Explanation and Expertise -- 8. The Character of Generalizations in Social Science and their Lack of Predictive Power -- 9. Nietzsche or Aristotle? -- 10. The Virtues in Heroic Societies11. The Virtues at Athens -- 12. Aristotle's Account of the Virtues -- 13. Medieval Aspects and Occasions -- 14. The Nature of the Virtues -- 15. The Virtues, the Unity of a Human Life and the Concept of a Tradition -- 16. From the Virtues to Virtue and after Virtue -- 17. Justice as a Virtue: Changing Conceptions -- 18. After Virtue: Nietzsche or Aristotle, Trotsky and St. Benedict -- 19. Postscript to the Second Edition -- Bibliography.