在赴美国作访问学者之前,我原以为,新自由主义伦理学内部的理论论战代表了当代美国伦理学发展前沿的基本状况,殊不知,这种内部论战仅仅是一个方面。更重要的是,新自由主义伦理学正面临着强大的外部挑战,即所谓共同体主义伦理学的挑战。这其中,最值得我们思考的问题之一,是当今美国最为著名的伦理学(史)家之一阿拉斯戴尔·麦金太尔(AlasdairMacintyre)所提出的德性伦理问题。 麦氏提出,以罗尔斯为代表的新自由主义伦理学虽然扭转了第二次世界大战以来元分析 Before going to the United States as a visiting scholar, I thought that the theoretical debate within the neoliberal ethics represents the basic frontier of contemporary American ethics. Everyone knows that such internal controversy is only one aspect. More importantly, neo-liberal ethics is facing a strong external challenge, the so-called communitarian ethical challenge. Among these issues, one of the most worthy of our consideration is the moral ethical issue raised by Alasdair Macintyre, one of the most famous American historians of ethics today. Maxwell proposed that neoliberal ethics, represented by Rawls, reversed the meta-analysis since the Second World War