A Study Of Macintyre's Virtue Ethics

In this paper, we think of MacIntyre'Virtue Construction from the Western moral tradition .From the perspective of Virtue Ethics and the enlightenment planning MacIntyre'analysis about the disease of today's Western moral is most profound, but there are biases in the methods use, the value orientation and cultural perspective and we try to make an assessment of the Virtue Ethics'vitality.MacIntyre pointed out what fills the air in the contemporary West virtuous life is one kind of emotivism. Emotivism makes the strict discrimination between the fact and the value, thought that objective and non-individual moral standards do not exist, any universal moral theory nothing but is individual will expression of each kind by chance, but this kind of emotion principle is the enlightenment project defeat's logic which the 18th century started . Mai thought that Enlightenment the moral rationality attempt which plans for the morals has been defeated inevitably. Nowadays the society is a moral relativism society. The virtuous life floods the continuous argument with the counter-assertion. The traditional virtues rationality proof launches from two aspects: First, the perceptual principle path, from the experience fact embarking, from the perception obtaining, from person's natural quality either the psychology cutting into, thought that the human is an animal which is apt to happiness and keep from sadness. The moral goal lies in satisfies person's desire and reaches the most greatly joyful or happy. Its main representative is utilitarianism; Another is the rationalism path, thought that person's substantive characteristics is the rationality, the human observe the morals according to the rational request, its main representative is Kant's deontology. But, the traditional virtues rationality proof defeat gets morals into the cataclysm, but Mai moral rationality proof only puts humanity virtuous life in order makes humanity's virtuous life free from this disaster. Therefore, Mai opposes the universal objectivity theory demand of enlightenment project, but does not approve the initiation preparation constructs based on the rational superstition. So, they are the identical trench ally which are resistant to emotivism. Mai'duty lies in recapturing the position which emotionalist takes away from the initiation thinker hand. For this reason, he can not but try another method. Mai the rationality proof discusses from the morality moral character cutting into, and will inspect in social and in the historical linguistic environment inspects, attempts to discuss therapy from the Virtue Ethics. He advocated returning to Aristotelian tradition, following the situation principle route, but on the other hand hoped for the universal moral demand, to get rid of the moral relativism to carry on one formalism packing, therefore, from the very beginning Mai rational proof have intense and contradictory throughout his theory. This kind of theory's nonuniformity prefabricates defeat destiny of his rationality reconstruction. For all this, Mai theory still had the profound inspiration to our moral reconstruction duty.