Reviews for Metaphysics and common sense

The average rating for Metaphysics and common sense based on 2 reviews is 3 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2017-06-22 00:00:00 Josh Melvin this is a pretty good book if you're already interested in macintyre and want to see how his thought changed over time, but if you want the fully developed theory go to After Virtue. still, there's a lot of great essays in here, many of which argue against weak versions of positions that macintyre takes in AV, or otherwise complicate his later arguments. the popular-facing essays in part one set up themes that get more philosophical treatment in part two. i suppose the only really important flaw is that it never coalesces around the treatment of ideology that is ostensibly the reason for the book's existence.

Review # 2 was written on 2014-09-11 00:00:00 Joseph Brown This book is a collection MacIntyre's essays before After Virtue. The essays are of varied quality. The first third or so of the book deals with MacIntyre's engagements with Marxism and the concept of ideology. MacIntyre evinces little patience with certain types of Marxism, the end-of-ideology thesis, or liberal or neo-orthodox theology. The second two-thirds of the book deal primarily with issues in then-contemporary (i.e. pre-1971) moral philosophy. His essays on the relationship between "is" and "ought," practical rationality, and the relationship between causes of movement and reasons for action were particularly helpful for me.