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53Book Review:Moral Absolutes: Tradition, Revision and Truth John Finnis (review)Ethics 103 (4): 811-. 1993.
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289Pluralism and the Moral MindThe Proceedings of the Twentieth World Congress of Philosophy 1 9-18. 1999.Cultural pluralism has caused disturbing problems for philosophers in applied ethics. If moral sanctions, theories, and applications are culturally bound, then moral conflicts ensuing from cultural differences would seem to be irresolvable. Even human nature, good or evil, is not free from cultural determination. One way out of this pluralistic impasse is the expansion of the moral mind. It is the outlet taken by religion, the arts, and philosophy from the earliest time in human culture. In phil…Read more
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11Review of Ross Harrison (ed.), Henry Sidgwick (review)Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews 2002 (10). 2002.
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22First principles, final ends, and contemporary philosophical issuesMarquette University Press. 1990.Presents MacIntyre's most explicit defense of his approach to Thomistic metaphysics. This lecture follows MacIntyre's argument in After Virtue that modern philosophy has very literally lost its way, and the problems it faces are insoluble. The difficulties are twofold, and stem from the Cartesian turn to the self in the XVith century.
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226A mistake about causality in social scienceRussian Sociological Review 12 (1): 139-157. 2013.The article considers the problem of actions–beliefs link. As author shows, the widespread approach in social science, those origins can be traced back to Hume and Mill and which tries to reveal the causal relations between beliefs and actions, is mistaken. It is mistaken because it proposes that, firstly, beliefs and actions are distinct and separately identifiable social phenomena and, secondly, causal connection consists in constant conjunction. MacIntyre, instead, proposes, taking as a start…Read more
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3Virtue ethicsIn Lawrence C. Becker & Charlotte B. Becker (eds.), Encyclopedia of Ethics, Routledge. pp. 2--1276. 2001.
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20The Revisions series marks an attempt to recover what is viable in the traditions of which we ought to be the heirs without ignoring what it was that made those traditions vulnerable to modernity.
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14Philosophy: Past Conflict and Future DirectionProceedings and Addresses of the American Philosophical Association 61 (1). 1987.
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14Egoism and altruismIn Paul Edwards (ed.), The Encyclopedia of philosophy, Macmillan. pp. 2--462. 1967.
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9Diskussion/Discussion. Kommentare zu R. Rorty: Zur Lage der Gegenwartsphilosophie in den USA (Analyse & Kritik 1/81)Analyse & Kritik 4 (1): 102-113. 1982.Richard Rorty argues that the present state of analytic philosophy is the result of the collapse of the logical empiricist program. But most of the characteristics of analytic philosophy which Rorty ascribes to that collapse predated logical empiricism. The historical explanation of the present state of philosophy must begin not later than with the schism between philosophy and the other disciplines in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. To begin then leads to a different view of how philo…Read more
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7Pragmatism and RealismRowman & Littlefield Publishers. 1996.In this collection of nine essays, Will demonstrates that a social account of human knowledge is consistent with, and ultimately requires, realism.
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7Naming Evil, Judging EvilUniversity of Chicago Press. 2006.Is it more dangerous to call something evil or not to? This fundamental question deeply divides those who fear that the term oversimplifies grave problems and those who worry that, to effectively address such issues as terrorism and genocide, we must first acknowledge them as evil. Recognizing that the way we approach this dilemma can significantly affect both the harm we suffer and the suffering we inflict, a distinguished group of contributors engages in the debate with this series of timely a…Read more
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52Contingency, Irony, and Solidarity by Richard Rorty (review)Journal of Philosophy 87 (12): 708-711. 1990.
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4Review of Ernest Gellner: Legitimation of Belief (review)British Journal for the Philosophy of Science 29 (1): 105-110. 1978.
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