LA ACTUACIÓN RACIONAL Y EL BIEN HUMANO

Abstract

This paper discusses Alasdair MacIntyre's main thesis concerning rational agency and its necessary connection to a theory of goods. Many of the notions here exposed are formulated in a distinct way - in germinal state - through out the main works of MacIntyre: that is the signification of the paper. It begins with the following warning: human beings do not have an adequate counsciousness of their beings as practical reasoners. So it describes how the author conceives and values the different types of goods and argues for the necessity of an objective supreme good which is able of play the role of ultimate criteria for virtuous actions. All of that lead to an understanding - each time more adequate - of what means to live well qua human beings. Besides it shows how this kind of question is not answered in the plan of moral reflection, but that in the final it should be situated in a metaphysical- theological perspective.