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258Is patriotism a virtue?In Derek Matravers & Jonathan Pike (eds.), Debates in Contemporary Political Philosophy: An Anthology, Routledge, in Association With the Open University. 1984.This is the text of The Lindley Lecture for 1984, given by Alasdair Maclntyre, a Scottish philosopher
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30Interview - Alasdair MacIntyreThe Philosophers' Magazine 40 47-48. 2008.Alasdair MacIntyre’s seminal book After Virtue was central in the rehabilitation of the Aristotelian approach to ethics. His work in moral and political philosophy is among the most important of his generation, and is influenced by Marx, Aquinas, Aristotle, and conversion to Roman Catholicism. He is a permanent senior research fellow at the University of Notre Dame.
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21Kierkegaard 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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12. Die Thesen über Feuerbach. Ein Weg, der nicht beschritten wurdeIn Harald Bluhm (ed.), Karl Marx / Friedrich Engels: Die Deutsche Ideologie, Akademie Verlag. pp. 25-40. 2010.
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207Alasdair Macintyre on education: In dialogue with Joseph DunneJournal of Philosophy of Education 36 (1). 2002.This discussion begins from the dilemma, posed in some earlier writing by Alasdair MacIntyre, that education is essential but also, in current economic and cultural conditions, impossible. The potential for resolving this dilemma through appeal to ‘practice’, ‘narrative unity’, and ‘tradition’(three core concepts in After Virtue and later writings) is then examined. The discussion also explores the relationship of education to the modern state and the power of a liberal education to create an ‘e…Read more
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11Wahre Selbsterkenntnis durch Verstehen unserer selbst aus der Perspektive andererDeutsche Zeitschrift für Philosophie 44 (4): 671-684. 1996.
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52Albert R. Jonsen and Stephen Toulmin, "The Abuse of Casuistry: A History of Moral Reasoning" (review)Journal of the History of Philosophy 28 (4): 634. 1990.
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40Review of Peter Thomas Geach: Truth, Love and Immortality: An Introduction to Mctaggart’s Philosophy (review)Ethics 91 (4): 667-668. 1981.
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28Review of John Finnis: Moral Absolutes: Tradition, Revision, and Truth (Michael J. McGivney Lectures of the John Paul II Institute) (review)Ethics 103 (4): 811-812. 1993.
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15Prospects for a Common Morality (review)Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 55 (2): 484-487. 1995.
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Foreword to the second editionIn Isaiah Berlin (ed.), Concepts and categories: philosophical essays, Penguin Books. 1978.
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About what do contemporary Atheists and Theists disagree?In Fran O'Rourke & Patrick Masterson (eds.), Ciphers of transcendence: essays in philosophy of religion in honour of Patrick Masterson, Irish Academic Press. 2019.
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15Dependent 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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23On Being a Theistic Philosopher in a Secularized CultureProceedings of the American Catholic Philosophical Association 84 23-32. 2010.
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97How Aristotelianism Can Become Revolutionary: Ethics, Resistance, and UtopiaPhilosophy of Management 7 (1): 3-7. 2008.
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31Precis of Whose Justice? Which Rationality?Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 51 (1): 149-152. 1991.
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129Critical Remarks on The Sources of the Self by Charles Taylor (review)Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 54 (1): 187-190. 1994.
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37Prospects for a Common Morality (review)Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 55 (2): 484-487. 1995.
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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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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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