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Aristotle's achievement is portrayed as linking justice and practical rational ity within the context of the polis. The polis, according to MacIntyre, is "the institution whose concern was, not with this or that particular good, but with human good as such, and not with desert or achievement in respect of par ticular practices, but with desert ...
The Virtual Library houses over 235,000 criminal justice resources, including all known OJP works. Whose Justice? Which Rationality? This analysis of the concepts of justice and rationality contends that unresolved fundamental conflicts exist in our society about what justice requires, because basic disagreement exists regarding what the ...
1 de mar. de 2012 · This chapter reviews the book Whose Justice? Which Rationality? (1989) by Alasdair MacIntyre. In the second book of the Politics, Aristotle asks whether it is a good thing to encourage changes in society. Should people be offered rewards for inventing some change in the traditional laws?
1 de fev. de 1991 · traditio n of justice and rationality Hume is ex emplar y of the more general destructiveness of modernity. Th e critique of modernity, liberalism, and the Enlightenment is a main part of the book ...
In Alasdair MacIntyre: After Virtue and later works. MacIntyre argued in Whose Justice?Which Rationality? (1988) and Three Rival Versions of Moral Enquiry (1990) that justification of such large-scale viewpoints must proceed historically: in order to assess the rationality of adherence to large-scale viewpoints—MacIntyre called them “traditions”—one must look to the history of their ...
Whose Justice? Which Rationality?, the sequel to After Virtue, is a persuasive argument of there not being rationality that is not the rationality of some tradition. MacIntyre examines the problems presented by the existence of rival traditions of inquiry in the cases of four major philosophers: Aristotle, Augustine, Aquinas, and Hume.
- Alasdair MacIntyre
So rationality itself, whether theoretical or practical, is a concept with a history: indeed, since there are also a diversity of traditions of enquiry, with histories, there are, so it will turn out, rationalities rather than rationality, just as it will also turn out that there are justices rather than justice (WJWR, p. 9).
