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19 de mar. de 2021 · 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.
Which Rationality? is a 1988 book of moral philosophy by the Scottish philosopher Alasdair MacIntyre. In the book, MacIntyre argues that there are a number of different and incompatible accounts of practical reasoning or rationality: those of Aristotle, Augustine, David Hume (and more broadly the "Scottish school"), and Thomas ...
No sharper contrast exists between any characteristically fifth-or fourth-century Greek view of justice and any characteristically modern liberal view than in respect of the scope of justice, of the area defined as that to which the norms of justice are to apply.
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...
7 de mar. de 2022 · Includes index. Rival justices, competing rationalities -- Justice and action in the Homeric imagination -- The division of the post-Homeric inheritance -- Athens put to the question -- Plato and rational enquiry -- Aristotle as Plato's heir -- Aristotle on justice -- Aristotle on practical rationality -- The Augustinian alternative ...
31 de mar. de 1988 · Which Rationality?, the sequel to After Virtue, is a persuasive argument of there not being rationality that is not the rationality of some tradition. MacIntyre examines the problems presented by the existence of rival traditions of inquiry in the cases of four major philosophers: Aristotle, Augustine, Aquinas, and Hume.
liberals can discover in Whose Justice? Which Rationality? that they have been on a binge caused by a mind altering concoction which promised not only more than it could deliver, but promised the impossible. In MacIntyre's view neutral notions of justice, good, reason and truth are ungettable.
