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| Titre : | Whose Justice ? Which Rationality ? |
| Auteurs : | Alasdair MacIntyre, Auteur |
| Type de document : | texte imprimé |
| Editeur : | Notre Dame [USA] : University of Notre Dame Press, 1988 |
| ISBN/ISSN/EAN : | 978-0-268-01942-6 |
| Format : | xi + 410 p. |
| Langues: | Anglais |
| Index. décimale : | EQ/E (Ethique : approche chrétienne) |
| Résumé : |
When ^ter Virtue first appeared in 1981, it was recognized immediately as the most important and controversial critique of contemporary moral philosophy to have been written in years. "After Virtue" wrote Richard Rorty, “offers a diagnosis of the present state of moral philosophy which expands into a diagnosis of the state of modern society. . . . Few recent books have combined such a large vision of the nature of morality with such a sharp eye for historical circumstance.” Many other reviewers of this ground-breaking study agree: "... a stunning new study of ethics by one of the foremost moral philosophers in the English-speaking world.” -Newsweek-, . . one of the most important books of the decade.” - Robert Bellah for Commonweal-, “It is something to have a book, devoted to certain quite central technical philosophical questions, which is likely to produce so passionate a response.” - J.M. Cameron for The New York Review of Books.
In Whose Justice!1 Which Rationality?, the sequel to After Virtue, Alasdair MacIntyre expands his line of reasoning to the concepts of justice and rationality. Despite a rhetoric of consensus, he contends unresolved fundamental conflicts in our society remain about what justice requires. Those who look for practical answers to these questions face the problem of radical disagreement on what the rational justification is for acting one way rather than another. Whose Justice? Which Rationality? is a persuasive argument that there is no such thing as a 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. In each case he narrates the historical context in which the tradition developed and the conflicts that it sought to resolve. Allegiance to one tradition then allows for meaningful contact with other traditions in a way that can lead to understanding, vindication, or revision of that tradition in its continuing form. Thus, only by being grounded in the history of our own and opposing traditions will we be able to restore rationality and intelligibility to our moral attitudes and commitments today. |
| Note de contenu : |
- Preface I. Rival Justices, Competing Rationalities II. Justice and Action in the Homeric Imagination III. The Division of the Post-Homeric Inheritance IV. Athens Put to the Question V. Plato and Rational Enquiry VI. Aristotle as Plato’s Heir VII. Aristotle on Justice VIII. Aristotle on Practical Rationality IX. The Augustinian Alternative X. Overcoming a Conflict of Traditions XI. Aquinas on Practical Rationality and Justice XII. The Augustinian and Aristotelian Background to Scottish Enlightenment XIII. Philosophy in the Scottish Social Order XIV. Hutcheson on Justice and Practical Rationality XV. Hume’s Anglicizing Subversion XVI. Hume on Practical Rationality and Justice XVII. Liberalism Transformed into a Tradition XVIII. The Rationality of Traditions XIX. Tradition and Translation XX. Contested Justices, Contested Rationalities - Index of Persons |
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| Code-barres | Cote | Support | Localisation | Section | Disponibilité |
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| EQ/E 036b | EQ/E 036b | Livre | Bibliothèque principale | Livres empruntables | Prêt possible Disponible |
