‘The Essential Theatricality of Virtue’: A Review of Jennifer Herdt's Putting on Virtue
One of Alasdair MacIntyre's colleagues at Notre Dame once told me that of all the passages in all his books, there is one of which MacIntyre is most proud. It is found, of course, in After Virtue: Consider the example of a highly intelligent seven-year-old child whom I wish to teach to play che...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Cambridge Univ. Press
2012
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Scottish journal of theology
Year: 2012, Volume: 65, Issue: 2, Pages: 212-221 |
| Further subjects: | B
Augustine
B Eudaimonism B Hume B Virtue B Hypocrisy B MacIntyre B Luther B Erasmus |
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| Summary: | One of Alasdair MacIntyre's colleagues at Notre Dame once told me that of all the passages in all his books, there is one of which MacIntyre is most proud. It is found, of course, in After Virtue: Consider the example of a highly intelligent seven-year-old child whom I wish to teach to play chess, although the child has no particular desire to learn the game. The child does however have a very strong desire for candy and little chance of obtaining it . . . |
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| ISSN: | 1475-3065 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Scottish journal of theology
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1017/S0036930612000063 |