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Whose justice? Which rationality? /

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....

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: MacIntyre, Alasdair C.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Notre Dame, Ind. : University of Notre Dame Press, ©1988.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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
  • Overcoming a conflict of traditions
  • Aquinas on practical rationality and justice
  • The Augustinian and Aristotelian background to Scottish Enlightenment
  • Philosophy in the Scottish social order
  • Hutcheson on justice and practical rationality
  • Hume's anglicizing subversion
  • Hume on practical rationality and justice
  • Liberalism transformed into a tradition
  • The rationality of traditions
  • Tradition and translation
  • Contested justices, contested rationalities.