ZAJEDNICA, TRADICIJA I ETIKA VRLINA
COMMUNITY, TRADITION AND THE ETHICS OF VIRTUES

Summary/Abstract: MacIntyre maintains that contemporary morality is in a state of great crisis due to the moral philosophy of Enlightenment. In the age of Enlightenment there was an attempt to establish a rational justification of morality without referring to the telos of human beings. This attempt produced inconsistencies, because the enlighteners accepted moral beliefs inherited from tradition. However, those moral beliefs were adapted not to human nature as it was, but as it should have been. The most important consequence of Enlightenment is liberalism. MacIntyre criticizes liberalism as an inconsistent theory which on the one hand wants to establish universal beliefs which are valid without referring to tradition, and yet is itself transformed into tradition. In contrast to liberalism, MacIntyre suggests the return of the Aristotelian-Thomistic tradition.

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