Whose justice? Which rationality?
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BookPublication details: London Duckworth 1988Description: xi, 410 pISBN: 9780715621998Subject(s): Justice (Philosophy) - History | Reason - History | Justice | Ethics - History | Moral Development | Moral PhilosophyDDC classification: 172 Summary: Whose Justice? 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
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TABLE OF CONTENT
Preface
1. Rival Justices, Competing Rationalities
2. Justice and Action in the Homeric Imagination
3. The Division of the Post-Homeric inheritance
4. Athens Put to the Question
5. Plato and Rational Enquiry
6. Aristotle on Justice
7. Aristotle on Practical Rationality
8. The Augustinian Alternative
9. Overcoming and Conflict Traditions
10. Aquinas on Practical Rationality and Justice
11. The Augustinian and Aristotelian Background to Scottish Enlightenment
12. Philosophy in the Scottish Social Order
13. Hutcheson on Justice and Practical Rationality
14. Hume’s Anglicizing Subversion
15. Hume on Practical Rationality and Justice
16. Liberalism Transformed into a Tradition
17. The Rationality of Traditions
18. Tradition and Translation
19. Contested Justices, Contested Rationalities
Index of Persons
Whose Justice? 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
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