Abbreviations
Acknowledgments
Introduction
1. The Emotivist Challenge
MacIntyre's Alternative: The Virtue Tradition
The Enlightenment Legacy
The Thomist Synthesis
The Rationality of Traditions
2. MacIntyre on Moral Traditions
Virtue Traditions: Ancient and Modern
Perspectivism and Practical Enquiry
3. Traditions of Enquiry: A Whiteheadian Alternative
Speculative and Practical Reason
Practical Reasoning and Aesthetic Order
4. Perspectivism and Practical Truths
Tradition and Geneology
Traditions: Past, Present, and Future
Tradition and Adventure
5. Whitehead's Aesthetic Teleology
Matters Metaphysical
6. Perspectivism and the Limits of Practical Enquiry
Perspectivism and Practical Truth
Perspectivism and Practical Progress
Practical Rationalities and the Aesthetic Teleology
7. Practical Enquiries
The Virtues of Traditions
Moral Truths and Moral Progress
Conclusion: Practical Rationalities
Practical Traditions and Practical Truths
Practical Rationalities and the Emotivist Challenge
Practical Enquiries and Practical Progress
Notes
Bibliography
Index