Tres versiones rivales de la ética

This extraordinarily lucid work goes to the heart of today's cultural and social crossroads. From the official positions it will even be considered subversive, despite its rigor, or perhaps precisely because of it. MacIntyre notes the absence of a real debate on ethical issues, caused by the lack of agreement on the fundamentals. The only way to recover the lost cultural unity is to rethink philosophy and theology as a task that requires internal discipline, learning rules and, ultimately, a tradition, understood as a community of scientific work.The text comes from a series of Gifford lectures given by the author at the University of Edinburgh. He examines three conflicting ethical traditions, and shows that the dialogue between them can open a fruitful way of overcoming that sheds light on the controversies of our time.