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... Aristotelian under- standing of nature was repudiated , at the same time as Aristotle's influence had been expelled from both Protestant and Jansenist theology , the Aristotelian account of action was also rejected . ' Man ' ceases ...
... Aristotelian under- standing of nature was repudiated , at the same time as Aristotle's influence had been expelled from both Protestant and Jansenist theology , the Aristotelian account of action was also rejected . ' Man ' ceases ...
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... Aristotelian tradition has occupied two distinct places in my argument : first , because I have suggested that a great part of modern morality is intelligible only as a set of fragmented survivals from that tradition , and indeed that ...
... Aristotelian tradition has occupied two distinct places in my argument : first , because I have suggested that a great part of modern morality is intelligible only as a set of fragmented survivals from that tradition , and indeed that ...
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... Aristotelian tradition . But it now turns out to be the case that in the end the Nietzschean stance is only one more facet of that very moral culture of which Nietzsche took himself to be an implacable critic . It is therefore after all ...
... Aristotelian tradition . But it now turns out to be the case that in the end the Nietzschean stance is only one more facet of that very moral culture of which Nietzsche took himself to be an implacable critic . It is therefore after all ...
Contents
The Nature of Moral Disagreement Today and | 6 |
Social Content and Social Context | 22 |
The Predecessor Culture and the Enlightenment Project | 35 |
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