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176Review of Tetsuo Najita: Visions of Virtue in Tokugawa Japan: The Kaitokudō Merchant Academy of Osaka. (review)Ethics 98 (3): 587-588. 1988.
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12Wahre Selbsterkenntnis durch Verstehen unserer selbst aus der Perspektive andererDeutsche Zeitschrift für Philosophie 44 (4): 671-684. 1996.
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88What More Needs to Be Said? A Beginning, Although Only a Beginning, at Saying ItAnalyse & Kritik 30 (1): 261-281. 2008.The responses to my critics are as various as their criticisms, focusing successively on the distinctive character of modern moral disagreements, on the nature of common goods and their relationship to the virtues, on how the inequalities generated by advanced capitalist economies and by the contemporary state prevent the achievement of common goods, on issues concerning the nature of the self, on what it is that Marx’s theory enables us to understand and on how some Marxists have failed to unde…Read more
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28Why Is the Search for the Foundations of Ethics So Frustrating?Hastings Center Report 9 (4): 16-22. 1979.
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2856. Whose Justice? Which Rationality?In Bernard Williams (ed.), Essays and Reviews: 1959-2002, Princeton University Press. pp. 283-288. 2014.
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67What Can Moral Philosophers Learn from the Study of the Brain?The Engine of Reason, the Seat of Soul: A Philosophical Journey into the Brain (review)Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 58 (4): 865-869. 1998.
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52Vi. after virtue and marxism: A response to WartofskyInquiry: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Philosophy 27 (1-4). 1984.My response to Wartofsky's questions concerning why the Aristotelian tradition of the virtues was rejected and why individualist modes of thought found such ready acceptance is to sketch the kind of historical narrative which I take it must be written if his questions are to be adequately answered. I identify one source of difference between us in the varying extent to which he and I have rejected Marxist modes of thought
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53Value and Context: The Nature of Moral and Political Knowledge (review)Journal of Moral Philosophy 5 (1): 151-154. 2008.
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23The Wrong Questions to Ask about WarThe Ethics of WarHastings Center Report 10 (6): 40. 1980.Book reviewed in this article: The Ethics of War. By Barrie Paskins and Michael Dockrill.
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119The very idea of a university: Aristotle, Newman, and usBritish Journal of Educational Studies 57 (4): 347-362. 2009.No abstract
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104The Savage MindPhilosophical Quarterly 17 (69): 372. 1967."Every word, like a sacred object, has its place. No _précis_ is possible. This extraordinary book must be read."—Edmund Carpenter, _New York Times Book Review _ "No outline is possible; I can only say that reading this book is a most exciting intellectual exercise in which dialectic, wit, and imagination combine to stimulate and provoke at every page."—Edmund Leach, _Man _ "Lévi-Strauss's books are tough: very scholarly, very dense, very rapid in argument. But once you have mastered him, human …Read more
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44Theology, ethics, and the ethics of medicine and health care: Comments on papers by Novak, Mouw, ROACH, Cahill, and HarttJournal of Medicine and Philosophy 4 (4): 435-443. 1979.
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52The Claims of After VirtueAnalyse & Kritik 6 (1): 3-7. 1984.After Virtue claims that it is characteristic of contemporary society that its debates are peculiarly unsettlable; that this state of affairs is the result of the failure by the thinkers of the Enlightenment to construct a rational, secular defence of shared moral principles; and that the Aristotelian tradition of the virtues provides the only rationally defensible alternative to post-Enlightenment morality.
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224Social structures and their threats to moral agencyPhilosophy 74 (3): 311-329. 1999.Imagine first the case of J (who might be anybody, jemand). J used to inhabit a social order, or rather an area within a social order, where socially approved roles were unusually well-defined. Responsibilities were allocated to each such role and each sphere of role-structured activity was clearly demarcated. These allocations and demarcations were embodied in and partly constituted by the expectations that others had learned to have of those who occupied each such role. For those who occupied …Read more
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169The Seven Deadly Sins TodayHastings Center Report 9 (2): 28. 1979.Book reviewed in this article: The Seven Deadly Sins: Society and Evil. By Stanford M. Lyman. The Seven Deadly Sins Today. By Henry Fairlie.
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9Sin Returns To SociologyHastings Center Report 9 (2): 28-29. 1979.Book reviewed in this article: The Seven Deadly Sins: Society and Evil. By Stanford M. Lyman. The Seven Deadly Sins Today. By Henry Fairlie.