Virtue And Teleology: Teleology From Mcintyre Road,

The article begins from MacIntyre's rejection to Aristotle's 'biologically teleological account' in his 'After Virtue' and focuses on the problem of the relationship between virtue theories and teleology. In his late chapters in 'After Virtue', MacIntyre constructs a 'socially teleological account' for his virtue theory in the hope of this new teleology could replace Aristotle's teleology. However, after analyzing and probing into the virtue theory and his 'socially teleological account' provided by MacIntyre, it seems that MacIntyre makes himself plunge deeply into the mire of a 'circular argumentation'. Therefore the writer of this article will try to explain the reason for MacIntyre's trouble in his argumentation with the framework of teleology of Eudaimonia which provided by Aristotle in his Nicomachean Ethics. Then in the last part of the article, the writer will introduce another teleological concept from Kant's thoughts and is willing to see perhaps we'd better turn to Kant's late thoughts to get some inspiration of this problem.