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This article is a critical examination of MacIntyre’s notion of morality in reference to Kant’s deontological moral theory. The examination shows that MacIntyre (a) criticizes Kant’s moral theory to defend virtue ethics or neo-Aristotelian ethics with a weak notion of morality; (b) favors the idea of local morality, which does not leave any room for moral assessment and reciprocity in an intercultural domain; and (c) fails to provide good arguments for his moral historicism and against Kant’s moral universalism.
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Since the early period of the 20th century, the discussion on morality in the West seems to have taken a u-turn to replant teleological ethical theory with a little modification under the name of traditional morality that is a form of moral historicism, which claims moral values can be inferred from the course of history of one’s culture and tradition
MacIntyre criticizes Kant’s deontological moral theory and favors the idea of local morality, which is in one sense a form of moral historicism and in another sense neo-Aristotelian ethics
For a better understanding of MacIntyrean ethics and my comments on it, I have divided this seminal article into three sections: The first section examines MacIntyre’s response to Kant; second examines his response to Hare, who defended Kant’s universalizability thesis; and the third section gives a brief overview of MacIntyre’s moral historicism
Summary
Since the early period of the 20th century, the discussion on morality in the West seems to have taken a u-turn to replant teleological ethical theory with a little modification under the name of traditional morality that is a form of moral historicism, which claims moral values can be inferred from the course of history of one’s culture and tradition. As MacIntyre talks about culture, history, and tradition which presuppose an existing society for the practice of moral actions he is not supposed to accept the second possibility as true.
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