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86What 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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4Review of Ernest Gellner: Legitimation of Belief (review)British Journal for the Philosophy of Science 29 (1): 105-110. 1978.
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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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54The Unconscious: A Conceptual Analysis (Revised Edition)Routledge. 1976.This new edition includes a substantial new preface by the author, in which he discusses repression, determinism, transference, and "practical rationality," and ...
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3138. After Virtue: A Study in Moral TheoryIn Bernard Williams (ed.), Essays and Reviews: 1959-2002, Princeton University Press. pp. 184-186. 2014.
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98The 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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Justice and aristotelian practical reason-Macintyre on Hume-Macintyre and the indispensability of tradition-replyPhilosophy and Phenomenological Research 51 (1): 169-178. 1991.
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Dependent Rational Animals: Why Human Beings Need the VirtuesPhilosophical Quarterly 51 (203): 266-269. 2001.
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220Social 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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73Individual and social morality in japan and the united states: Rival conceptions of the selfPhilosophy East and West 40 (4): 489-497. 1990.
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83Philosophical Education Against Contemporary CultureProceedings of the American Catholic Philosophical Association 87 43-56. 2013.Four stages in an adequate philosophical education are distinguished. The first is that in which students learn to put in question some commonly shared assumptions about what happiness is and to ask what the good of engaging in this kind of questioning is. The second is a conceptual and linguistic analysis of “good” which enables questions about what human goods are to be formulated. The third is an investigation into the nature and unity of human beings designed to enable us to propose rational…Read more
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