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The book challenges expressivism, where ethical judgments are treated as subjective emotional expressions, by arguing it conceals deeper social and economic conditions. MacIntyre’s alternative is Aristotelian teleology: moral claims state that actions like murder undermine objective human goods. The review also situates the critique as an advanced, Marxian return and discusses how modern culture limits radical moral critique.","This article from Netherlands Journal of Legal Philosophy is published by Eleven international publishing and made available to anonieme bezoeker  \nBOOK REVIEWS  \nAlasdair MacIntyre, Ethics in the Conflicts of  \nModernity. An Essay on Desire, Practical Reasoning and Narrative  \nGustavo Arosemena  \nAlasdair MacIntyre, Ethics in the Conflicts of Modernity. An Essay on Desire, Practical Reasoning and Narrative (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2016), 332 p.  \nIn this book Alasdair MacIntyre confronts two rival accounts of practical reasoning. One based on the satisfaction of individual desires and another based on the achievement of human flourishing. MacIntyre sets out to vindicate the latter as superior. The theory of practical reasoning which gives emphasis to the satisfaction of desires descends from the work of David Hume and takes modern form in the meta-ethical doctrine of expressivism. According to expressivism ethical judgements are subjective expressions of emotion, attitude or commitment; not the sorts of things that can be true or false. For an expressivist, to say that murder is wrong is ultimately to say that he disapproves or feels outrage at murder. The theory of flourishing that MacIntyre defends in opposition to expressivism is a form of Aristotelian teleology. According to teleology the good is what objectively fulfills our natures as rational animals. For a teleologically oriented thinker, to say that murder is wrong is not to express an emotion, but rather to state that murder is detrimental to human flourishing. MacIntyre claims that the choice between expressivism and teleology is the most fundamental moral polemic of modern times.  \nWhile expressivism is a meta-ethical doctrine, that is, a doctrine about the metaphysical nature of ethical judgments, and not a social or political doctrine, MacIntyre’s main claim is not to show that expressivism is inadequate as a theory, but rather to show that it is the outgrowth and the mask of a defective ethical culture. It is not only that expressivism is mistaken, but rather that it serves ‘to conceal and disguise’ the true conditions of our social and economic order. This line of argument against expressivism is not wholly new. It is prefigured in MacIntyre’s critique of existentialism in Notes From the Moral Wilderness (1958), it appears also in After Virtue (1981) and elsewhere in his work, but this book takes this critique to a higher level, elevating it from a fertile suspicion to a detailed indictment of modern ethical thinking.  \nThis book represents a return to Marx for MacIntyre. While MacIntyre begun his academic career as a Marxist, Marx is largely absent from his mature works: After Virtue, Whose Justice, Which Rationality (1988), Three Rival Versions of Moral  \nNetherlands Journal of Legal Philosophy 2018 (47) 1 93  \ndoi: 10.5553/NJLP/ .000066  \nThis article from Netherlands Journal of Legal Philosophy is published by Eleven international publishing and made available to anonieme bezoeker  \nGustavo Arosemena  \nInquiry (1990), and Dependent Rational Animals (1999) . By contrast, Marx plays a significant role in this book. He is presented alongside Aristotle and Aquinas as a thinker who can help us go beyond the obfuscations of expressivism. This return to Marx is fitting. The claims that MacIntyre develops in this book ultimately harken back to his time as a socialist coming to terms with Stalinism (see the aforementioned Notes From the Moral Wilderness), and the argumentative strategy deployed against expressivism is distinctly Marxian in character. Expressivism is refuted by unmasking it as a cover for pernicious social tendencies.  \nAs the argument develops, MacIntyre shows that expressivism exhibits a problematic tendency to accept the most basic responses of individual human beings as unquestionable givens and to frame social problems as problems of administration of existing wants, leaving no room for radical critique. 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