...Gennady McCracken I suggest that MacIntyre’s account entails that nondisabled people have obligations to severely disabled strangers because of their social relationship to them. For him, social relationships encapsulate, and are distinct from, the relationships of giving and receiving. Here...

... philosophy of Alasdair MacIntyre. For an Aristotelian, such as myself, human life is an activity consisting of different practices through which we pursue their specific goods in the hope of living flourishing lives. To live such lives, the excellences of character—aretēs or virtues...

... be traced to the Enlightenment project of generating a universalizable justification for normative morality arising from within the individual, rational agent. This project has been criticized by Alasdair MacIntyre who suggests that its failure has resulted in a fragmented and incoherent contemporary...

... self-understanding and moral authority, they exemplify what Alasdair MacIntyre has termed “epistemological crisis.” As a response to crisis, the modern DSM has been a stunning political achievement, providing the central diagnostic constructs around which psychiatric research, practice...

... of the Oxford University Press, Standard Journals Publication Model ( https://dbpia.nl.go.kr/journals/pages/open_access/funder_policies/chorus/standard_publication_model ) Abstract Alasdair MacIntyre is often interpreted as a wholesale skeptic of human rights. Although understandable, given his caustic...

... Inc. All rights reserved. For permissions, please e-mail: [email protected] 2017 Abstract How do we know that particular answers in bioethical controversies are true, or are at least getting closer to the truth? We gain insight into this question by applying Alasdair MacIntyre’s work...

... and scientific objectivity so that they can be questioned and challenged. Bourdieu MacIntyre Nussbaum Aristotelianism Calvinism Critical For a long time, I had adopted the habit, when asked the…question of my relations with Marx, of replying that, all in all, if I really had to affiliate myself, I would...

... boundaries, and a significant majority of pain (physical or otherwise) can be medicated or anesthetized. In spite of these advances, there are still limits; at some point, all technology limps. No one has found a permanent means to avoid injury or death. As Alasdair MacIntyre observes, We human beings...

... or his good in concrete terms,” she or he “has first to recognize the goods of the community as goods that she or he must make her own” ( MacIntyre, 1999 , 109). On the other hand, there are some goods that are not shared by the entire community, such as some goods of particular families within...

...Warren A. Kinghorn Alasdair MacIntyre Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders psychiatric diagnostic classification The genealogical threads in these methodologically diverse and heterogeneous criticisms are clear upon close observation. Central to them...

... of the is/ought distinction. MacIntyre, in reviewing the history of the is/ought distinction, argues that is and ought are not strictly separate realms but exist in a close relationship that is clarified by adopting a teleological orientation. We propose that, instead of recovering a teleological orientation...

... for generations. I certainly do not intend to address it fully in these pages. But I hope to find some movement forward by exploring what resources one tradition may hold in addressing this problem. Alasdair MacIntyre has argued that St. Thomas Aquinas provided a synthesis of Aristotelian and Augustinian...

... in this kind of climate tend to be susceptible to a drift towards consequentialist forms of rationality. The subsequent shift in the Government's position on true hybrids would seem to be a case in point. Alasdair MacIntyre Christian ethics Dietrich Bonhoeffer human admixed embryos Karl Barth...

...This chapter discusses three arguments against the religious adequacy of explanatory justification. These arguments can be attributed to Lyas, Newman, and MacIntyre. The first argument presented makes illicit use of the notion of a belief as ‘religiously adequate’. The second argument can be dealt...

... MacIntyre’s claim that Løgstrup is not a natural law theorist (§7.2), and also Stephen Darwall’s claim that in this earlier work Løgstrup was a divine command theorist (§7.3), are both considered and rejected. The next section argues that the natural law theory Løgstrup adopted is non-theistic rather than...

...This chapter considers Alasdair MacIntyre’s critique, from a Thomistic-Aristotelian perspective, of the mainstream of the liberal tradition in moral and political philosophy in his important book Whose Justice? Which Rationality? This chapter expresses concern on MacIntyre’s strong...

... Heidegger Martin Kurtz Paul Wittgenstein Ludwig Mendelssohn Moses Nagel Thomas Nietzsche Friedrich perspectivalism Spinoza Baruch Toulmin Stephen MacIntyre Alasdair Simon Herbert A Taylor Charles Hume David Newton Isaac von Helmholtz Hermann social imaginary epistemological decolonialization...

...This chapter introduces the types of conceptual problems coercion posed to responsibility through the use of hypothetical scenarios. It summarizes Alasdair MacIntyre’s argument that rationality cannot exist independent of intellectual traditions. It summarizes existing Islamic studies scholarship...

... to ethics known as virtue ethics, and its application to individuals, managers, and organizations. The chapter identifies and describes the intended audience as ‘everyday plain people’, and then introduces Alasdair MacIntyre as the moral philosopher whose work provides the organizing framework for the book...

... is to bring joy to the people from the surroundings they create. And that was, in the end, just what she needed to make the decision. The key to developing from the individual and communal virtue ethics approach, to explore what we might call the intermediate level of organizations was, of course, MacIntyre’s...