Whose Justice? Which Rationality?
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What does it mean to reason about justice — and whose standards of rationality do we invoke when we do? In Whose Justice? Which Rationality?, Alasdair MacIntyre presents one of the most rigorous and provocative challenges to Enlightenment moral philosophy of the twentieth century, arguing that there is no single, tradition-independent standard of rational justification by which competing conceptions of justice can be adjudicated. MacIntyre meticulously traces four major intellectual traditions — Aristotelian, Augustinian, Thomistic, and Scottish Enlightenment — demonstrating that each embodies its own internally coherent standards of rationality, which cannot be reduced to a universal, neutral framework. A landmark work in moral and political philosophy, this volume advances the argument MacIntyre first ignited in After Virtue, deepening his critique of liberal political theory and the myth of a view from nowhere. His prose is dense yet masterful, marshalling centuries of philosophical and theological history with commanding authority, and his conclusion — that rationality itself is tradition-constituted — remains as contentious and consequential today as when first published. For anyone grappling with the foundations of ethics, politics, or the philosophy of mind, this is an essential and deeply unsettling read.
Author: Alasdair Macintyre
Format: Paperback
Published: 1988, University of Notre Dame Press
Genre: Philosophy
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: No dust jacket
Pages: Good
Condition remarks: Condition as shown in image
What does it mean to reason about justice — and whose standards of rationality do we invoke when we do? In Whose Justice? Which Rationality?, Alasdair MacIntyre presents one of the most rigorous and provocative challenges to Enlightenment moral philosophy of the twentieth century, arguing that there is no single, tradition-independent standard of rational justification by which competing conceptions of justice can be adjudicated. MacIntyre meticulously traces four major intellectual traditions — Aristotelian, Augustinian, Thomistic, and Scottish Enlightenment — demonstrating that each embodies its own internally coherent standards of rationality, which cannot be reduced to a universal, neutral framework. A landmark work in moral and political philosophy, this volume advances the argument MacIntyre first ignited in After Virtue, deepening his critique of liberal political theory and the myth of a view from nowhere. His prose is dense yet masterful, marshalling centuries of philosophical and theological history with commanding authority, and his conclusion — that rationality itself is tradition-constituted — remains as contentious and consequential today as when first published. For anyone grappling with the foundations of ethics, politics, or the philosophy of mind, this is an essential and deeply unsettling read.