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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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20Kierkegaard After MacIntyre: Essays on Freedom, Narrative, and VirtueOpen Court Publishing. 2001.The 1990s saw a revival of interest in Kierkegaard's thought, affecting the fields of theology, social theory, and literary and cultural criticism. The resulting discussions have done much to discredit the earlier misreadings of Kierkegaard's works.
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20The 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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17My Station and Its VirtuesJournal of Philosophical Research 19 1-8. 1994.This paper compares the central theses of Edmund M. Pincoffs’s Quandaries and Virtues with those of F. H. Bradley’s Ethical Studies. Both Pincoffs and Bradley understand virtues and duties as functional in respect of the common good of the social order. Both reject the individualism of Kantian and utilitarian theories. Both believe that ordinary moral agents do not appeal to and do not need to appeal to the kinds of justification for action defended by such theories. It is argued that the import…Read more
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17Partisan or Neutral? (review)Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 60 (3): 731-734. 2000.The political philosophy of recent American liberalism has been designed to answer three questions: how to justify egalitarian principles of distributive justice that should be compelling to any rational individual; how to defend a view of government according to which it is required to be neutral between rival conceptions of the human good, while guaranteeing the liberties of the adherents of each to pursue the achievement of their good, as they understand it; and how to elaborate an idea of pu…Read more
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15Prospects for a Common Morality (review)Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 55 (2): 484-487. 1995.
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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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14Dependent Rational Animals: Why Human Beings Need the VirtuesOpen Court. 1999.According to the author of "After Virtue, " to flourish, humans need to develop virtues of independent thought and acknowledged social dependence. This book presents the moral philosopher's comparison of humans to other animals and his exploration of the impact of these virtues.
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14Philosophical 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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13Philosophy and LanguageProceedings of the American Catholic Philosophical Association 84 23-32. 2010.
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