TWO DIFFERENT PERSPECTIVES OF MACINTYRE ON HUME: REVISITING ALASDAIR MACINTYRE’S APPROACH TO DAVID HUME’S MORAL PHILOSOPHY
TWO DIFFERENT PERSPECTIVES OF MACINTYRE ON HUME: REVISITING ALASDAIR MACINTYRE’S APPROACH TO DAVID HUME’S MORAL PHILOSOPHY

Summary/Abstract: Alasdair MacIntyre criticizes the modern morality for having emotivist features and in his central book After Virtue he points out that David Hume is the main personality who provides these emotivist contents to the modern morality. According to MacIntyre, Hume’s and the modern emotivist moral philosophy include fundamental contrasts generally with the classical moral tradition particularly with Aristotle’s moral philosophy. However, MacIntyre underlines these contrasts in After Virtue, he in his other texts out of After Virtue, distinguishably brings Hume and Aristotle together as they both have similar standpoints about how to understand morality. Therefore, MacIntyre’s interpretation on Hume needs to be examined with a perspective pointing these two different and seemingly mutually exclusive aspects. Putting together these two perspectives, this article aims to construct a holistic comprehension about MacIntyre’s placing Hume in the modern emotivism.

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