Alasdair MacIntyre argues that the Enlightenment ideology, which includes Adam Smith's moral theory, lacks any sense of … philosophy arguing that Smith did not completely discard a telos-based moral philosophy. Human nature, custom, and habit are only … part of Smith's moral framework, which does have touches of an Aristotelian-based virtue ethics that seeks the perfection …

called experimental philosophy (or x-phi), relies primarily on controlled experiments to interrogate the concepts, intuitions … arguments. Within the moral domain, for example, experimental philosophy has begun to contribute to long-standing debates about … or a good life; and the psychological basis of moral theory itself.We believe that experimental philosophical bioethics …