The Twentieth Century to Today · School
Virtue Ethics
Anscombe's 1958 call to return to Aristotelian character and virtue, developed by MacIntyre and Nussbaum into a wholesale critique of modern moral philosophy.
Representative figures · 2
G. E. M. Anscombe安斯康姆
Intention founded the philosophy of action, 'Modern Moral Philosophy' revived virtue ethics and coined 'consequentialism', and she opposed an honorary degree for Truman because he ordered the atomic bombs dropped.
Alasdair MacIntyre麦金太尔
After Virtue: modern morality is a heap of fragments torn from their context, emotivism is its truth, and the way out is a return to practices, tradition and the virtues, waiting for a new St Benedict.