Whose Justice? Which Rationality?Is there any cause or war worth risking one's life for? How can we determine which actions are vices and which virtues? MacIntyre, professor of philosophy at Vanderbilt University, unravels these and other such questions by linking the concept of justice to what he calls practical rationality. He rejects the grab-what-you-can, utilitarian yardstick adopted by moral relativists. Instead, he argues that four wholly different, incompatible ideas of justice put forth by Aristotle, Augustine, Aquinas and Hume have helped shape our modern individualistic world. In his unorthodox view, each person seeks the good through an ongoing dialogue with one of these traditions or within Jewish, non-Western or other historical traditions. This weighty sequel to After Virtue (1981) is certain to stir debate. |
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... embodied in this particular , which nous provides as the counterpart to its comprehension of the universal as such , the concept of the form as such . For to comprehend the form as such just is to comprehend it as embodied in ...
... embodied in this particular , which nous provides as the counterpart to its comprehension of the universal as such , the concept of the form as such . For to comprehend the form as such just is to comprehend it as embodied in ...
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... embodied in a set of texts which func- tion as the authoritative point of departure for tradition - constituted enquiry and which remain as essential points of reference for enquiry and activity , for argument , debate , and conflict ...
... embodied in a set of texts which func- tion as the authoritative point of departure for tradition - constituted enquiry and which remain as essential points of reference for enquiry and activity , for argument , debate , and conflict ...
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... embodied in forms . of practice and types of community . As such they make available for rational criticism and for further rational development those socially embodied theories and concepts of which they provide an understand- ing ...
... embodied in forms . of practice and types of community . As such they make available for rational criticism and for further rational development those socially embodied theories and concepts of which they provide an understand- ing ...
Contents
Rival Justices Competing Rationalities | 1 |
Justice and Action in the Homeric Imagination | 12 |
The Division of the PostHomeric Inheritance | 30 |
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