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918Cohen, G. A. Why Not Socialism? Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2009 . Pp. 83. $14.95 (cloth)Ethics 120 (2): 391-395. 2010.
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543Contingency, Irony, and Solidarity by Richard Rorty (review)Journal of Philosophy 87 (12): 708-711. 1990.
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351Partisan or Neutral? The Futility of Public Political TheoryPhilosophical and Phenomenological Research 60 (3): 731-734. 2000.
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317Plain Persons and Moral PhilosophyAmerican Catholic Philosophical Quarterly 66 (1): 3-19. 1992.
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297Charles Taylor and dramatic narrative: Argument and genrePhilosophy and Social Criticism 44 (7): 761-763. 2018.
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281Women’s Human Rights, Then and Now: Symposium on Eileen Hunt Botting’s Wollstonecraft, Mill, and Women’s Human Rights (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2016) (review)Political Theory 46 (3): 426-454. 2018.
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276On Being a Theistic Philosopher in a Secularized CultureProceedings of the American Catholic Philosophical Association 84 23-32. 2010.
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266Book Review: Robert Spaemann, Persons: The Difference Between `Someone' and `Something', trans. Oliver O'Donovan (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2006). vii + 255 pp. 45 (hb), ISBN 978 0 19 928181 (review)Studies in Christian Ethics 20 (3): 440-443. 2007.
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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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223Social 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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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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178Does Applied Ethics Rest on a Mistake?The Monist 67 (4): 498-513. 1984.‘Applied ethics’, as that expression is now used, is a single rubric for a large range of different theoretical and practical activities. Such rubrics function partly as a protective device both within the academic community and outside it; a name of this kind suggests not just a discipline, but a particular type of discipline. In the case of ‘applied ethics’ the suggestive power of the name derives from a particular conception of the relationship of ethics to what goes on under the rubric of ‘a…Read more
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166Review of Tetsuo Najita: Visions of Virtue in Tokugawa Japan: The Kaitokudō Merchant Academy of Osaka. (review)Ethics 98 (3): 587-588. 1988.
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164The Seven Deadly Sins TodayHastings Center Report 9 (2): 28. 1979.Book reviewed in this article: The Seven Deadly Sins: Society and Evil. By Stanford M. Lyman. The Seven Deadly Sins Today. By Henry Fairlie.
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145Relativism, Power and PhilosophyProceedings and Addresses of the American Philosophical Association 59 (1). 1985.
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133How Aristotelianism can become revolutionary : ethics, resistance, and utopiaIn Paul Blackledge & Kelvin Knight (eds.), Philosophy of Management, University of Notre Dame Press. pp. 3-7. 2011.
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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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129Interview - Alasdair MacIntyreThe Philosophers' Magazine 40 (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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128What 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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116The very idea of a university: Aristotle, Newman, and usBritish Journal of Educational Studies 57 (4): 347-362. 2009.No abstract
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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