VIRTUE AFTER A CRISIS: THE DISINTEGRATION OF MORAL LANGUAGE

The book examines the crisis of modern moral life, in which concepts such as justice, freedom, rights, responsibility, dignity, equality, and the common good remain widely used yet are increasingly detached from the practices that once gave them meaning. The crisis lies not in the disappearance of morality, but in the fragmentation of normative language, the weakening of practical reason, and the absence of a common foundation of judgment. Through the analysis of moral dissonance, emotionalism, tradition, social practice, justice, and personal freedom, the book shows that modern man is caught up in market, technocratic, and governance structures in which human relations are reduced to data, benefits, profiles, and performance. In this context, virtue is restored as the capacity to maintain the intrinsic purpose of practice, to judge in conflict, to take responsibility for the consequences, and to defend humanity against the tendency to materialize life. Virtue thus becomes the foundation for the reconstruction of common life and opens up new moral possibilities after the crisis of norms.

Pagina's: 308, Paperback, LAP LAMBERT Academic Publishing