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19 de mar. de 2021 · 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.
Whose Justice? 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 ...
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...
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.
1 de mar. de 2012 · This chapter reviews the book Whose Justice? Which Rationality? (1989) by Alasdair MacIntyre. In the second book of the Politics, Aristotle asks whether it is a good thing to encourage changes in society. Should people be offered rewards for inventing some change in the traditional laws?
Begin by considering the intimidating range of questions about what justice requires and permits, to which alternative and incompatible answers are offered by contending individuals and groups within contemporary societies. Does justice permit gross inequality of income and ownership?
7 de mar. de 2022 · Internet Archive. Language. English. xi, 410 pages ; 24 cm. 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 ...
