Alasdair MacIntyre, After Virtue - Emotivism as a Moral Theory - Sadler's Lectures

01/01/2026 13 min
Alasdair MacIntyre, After Virtue - Emotivism as a Moral Theory - Sadler's Lectures

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This lecture discusses key ideas from the 20th and 21st century philosopher and moral theorist, Alasdair MacIntyre's work After Virtue

It focuses upon chapter 3, specifically on his discussion of MacIntyre's analysis of the key and distinctive aspects of Emotivism as a moral theory. Emotivism was presented originally as a meta-ethical theory, but as MacIntyre notes, it develops into its own ethical stance that rules out the possibility of rational inquiry into and agreement upon moral matters.

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