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113The very idea of a university: Aristotle, Newman, and usBritish Journal of Educational Studies 57 (4): 347-362. 2009.No abstract
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54My 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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42Review of Raymond Geuss, Outside Ethics (review)Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews 2006 (3). 2006.
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11First 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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40Practical Rationalities As Forms of Social StructureIrish Philosophical Journal 4 (1-2): 3-19. 1987.
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115Ends and EndingsAmerican Catholic Philosophical Quarterly 88 (4): 807-821. 2014.The question posed in this paper is: Is there an end to some type of activity which is the end of any rational agent? It approaches an answer by a critical examination of one view of human beings that excludes this possibility, that advanced by Harry Frankfurt. It is argued that once we have distinguished, as Frankfurt does not, that which we have good reason to care about from that which we do not have good reason to care about, we are able to identify a conception of a final end for human acti…Read more
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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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127What Morality Is NotPhilosophy 32 (123). 1957.The central task to which contemporary moral philosophers have addressed themselves is that of listing the distinctive characteristics of moral utterances. In this paper I am concerned to propound an entirely negative thesis about these characteristics. It is widely held that it is of the essence of moral valuations that they are universalisable and prescriptive. This is the contention which I wish to deny. I shall proceed by first examining the thesis that moral judgments are necessarily and es…Read more
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13Philosophy and LanguageProceedings of the American Catholic Philosophical Association 84 23-32. 2010.
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51Vi. 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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9Hegel on faces and skullsIn Arto Laitinen & Constantine Sandis (eds.), Hegel on action, Palgrave-macmillan. 2010.
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7Reply to Dahl, Baier and SchneewindPhilosophy and Phenomenological Research 51 (1): 169-178. 1991.
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2The Tasks of Philosophy: Volume 1: Selected EssaysCambridge University Press. 2006.How should we respond when some of our basic beliefs are put into question? What makes a human body distinctively human? Why is truth an important good? These are among the questions explored in this 2006 collection of essays by Alasdair MacIntyre, one of the most creative and influential philosophers working today. Ten of MacIntyre's most influential essays written over almost thirty years are collected together here for the first time. They range over such topics as the issues raised by differ…Read more
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10God, Philosophy, Universities: A Selective History of the Catholic Philosophical TraditionRowman & Littlefield Publishers. 2009.Alasdair MacIntyre has written a selective history of the Catholic philosophical tradition, designed to show how belief in God informed and informs philosophical enquiry in different historical and social settings
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