Whose Justice? Which Rationality?

Name: Whose Justice? Which Rationality?
Author: Alasdair MacIntyre

by Alasdair MacIntyre

Philosophical account of justice and rationality across different intellectual traditions

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Alasdair MacIntyre

Scottish philosopher whose After Virtue argued that modern moral philosophy has lost the Aristotelian teleological framework that gives ethics coherence. He proposed virtue ethics as an alternative to both Kantian deontology and Benthamite utilitarianism. He converted to Catholicism in 1983.

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