Whose Justice? Which Rationality?Alasdair C. MacIntyre
Whose Justice? Which Rationality?
by Alasdair C. MacIntyre · first published 1988
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…confidence is understandable. I do, of course, agree with you that our broader cultural approach to such issues is entirely arbitrary and resistant to intellectual progress. Edit: Alasdair MacIntyre's Whose Justice, Which Rationality is a stellar treatment of this problem you're noticing: http://www.amazon.com/Whose-Justice-Rationality-Alasdair-Mac...
on “When Philosophy Lost Its Way” ↗Anyone interested in the necessity of understanding history for philosophical and moral thinking ought to read MacIntyre's Whose Justice, Which Rationality. It argues that a "history-constituted tradition" is the inevitable system in which we make intellectual progress, and analyses the major movements in philosophy as support. http://www.amazon.com/Whose-Justice-Rationality-Alasdair-Mac...
on “Presumption of stupidity” ↗…process, not a set of conclusions. One word for this is "tradition". If I've piqued your interest, please read Alasdair MacIntyre's book "After Virtue," and also it's sequel with a more provocative title, "Whose Justice? Which Rationality?"
on “Biden wins White House, vowing new direction for divided U.S.” ↗…worth of work is not irrelevant, it's the only thing relevant (with differences in how moral is defined). In-depth rebuttals should be directed to Alasdair MacIntyre, a Scottish philosopher whose book "Whose Justice, Which Rationality," I just paraphrased in part. (But seriously...)
on “Why the more your job helps others, the less you get paid” ↗…liberals, liberal liberals, and radical liberals. There is little place in such political systems for the criticism of the system itself, that is, for putting liberalism in question" (Alasdair MacIntyre, Whose Justice? Which Rationality?, 394). Smugness is a problem for liberal liberals and conservative liberals alike. Perhaps smugness is a natural temptation or outgrowth of liberalism itself.
on “The smug style in American liberalism” ↗Is this perhaps an intentional parallel to '_Whose Justice? Which Rationality?_" by Alasdair MacIntyre?
on “Gallup: U.S. church membership dips below 50% for first time” ↗…philosopher in any sense beyond that of having a bunch of books on philosophy. If you asked me out of the blue to name a book by MacIntyre, I would definitely remember "After Virtue", might remember "Whose Justice? Which Rationality?", and would not be able to think of any more. I could give you a crappy one-or-two-sentence summary of what AV is about (which would e.g. largely fail to distinguish his ideas about ethics from Anscombe's)…
on “Remembering Alasdair MacIntyre” ↗