Politics in the Conflicts of Modernity
Aristotelian and Marxist
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 13043145 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Molly Lazarus (0000-0003-2127-672X, corresponding author), Michael Lazarus (0000-0002-4229-5578, Monash University) |
| Year | 2019 |
| Volume | 9 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 463-479 |
| Publication date | 2019-07-03 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | International Critical Thought (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 2159-8312 • E-ISSN: 2159-8312 |
| Publisher | Taylor & Francis (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/21598282.2019.1647549 |
| OpenAlex | W2973830203 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 7 |
Alasdair MacIntyre's latest book, Ethics in the Conflicts of Modernity, confirms his interest in Marxism as a form of critique. MacIntyre's debt to Marx has been central to recent scholarship, strengthening his reception as a radical thinker. This article examines the relationship between politics and ethics in MacIntyre and Marx. Following Aristotle, MacIntyre sees ethics as part of political inquiry. Marx features in Ethics in the Conflicts of Modernity to help confront the “ethics-of-the-market” and the “ethics-of-the-state.” This renewed engagement demands a reassessment of his critique of Marx. MacIntyre argues Marx lacks a sufficient account of the human good. However, MacIntyre fails to consider the implications of his own characterisation of Marx's Aristotelianism. Marx develops an ethical understanding derived from an Aristotelian social ontology, elaborated first in the “Economic and Philosophical Manuscripts,” with the concept of “species-being,” and, then, in the value-form theory in Capital. Marx's teleological concept of labour supplies his social theory with an ethical structure. I argue MacIntyre's critique of Marx, and in turn C. L. R. James, underplays the importance of this concept of labour in founding a collective politics of resistance, and instead, retreats to the politics of the local community
Capitalism · Epistemology · Marxist philosophy · Modernity · Political science · Politics · Scholarship · Social science · Sociology · State (computer science · Teleology · Value (mathematics · Critical Realism in Sociology · Law · Philosophy · Political Economy and Marxism · Political Philosophy and Ethics
| Citations per year | 0.5 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2024 - 2024 (1) |
| Highly cited | No |