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El doble carácter narrativo de la justificación racional en Alasdair MacIntyre
… de orden teórico en el pensamiento de Alasdair MacIntyre. Cada uno de estos tipos de racionalidad fue descrito y trabajado por MacIntyre en obras diferentes, lo cual supuso una peculiar exigencia de interpretación, que se concretó en su registro narrativo. Relatar la vida de las tradiciones y la …
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After MacIntyre: A Critical Assessment of the Historical Method of Value Inquiry
… Justice? Which Rationality? (1988), Alasdair MacIntyre argues that contemporary political discourse has fallen into a fragmented and impoverished condition as a result of the fact that we have lost contact with the philosophical tradition which spawned our political and cultural practices, and …
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A Comparative Critique of the Moral Philosophies of Alasdair MacIntyre and John Hare
… argues that the Aristotelianism of Alasdair MacIntyre is more cogent than the prescriptive realism of John Hare. Chapter 1 introduces the relationship between moral philosophy and apologetics and presents the thesis of the dissertation. Chapter 2 surveys the Aristotelian elements of …
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The Practice of the Body of Christ: Human Agency in Pauline Theology After MacIntyre
… classical account of human action that Alasdair MacIntyre's work helps to recover. Such an account of agency helps ground an apocalyptic reading of Paul by recovering the centrality of the church and its day-to-day Christic practices, specifically, but not exclusively, the Eucharist. To …
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Crisis of the public sector : a philosophical analysis of new public management through MacIntyre and Foucault
… upon the Aristotelian philosophy of Alasdair MacIntyre and identify two distinct spheres of the public sector: practices and institutions. I then argue that NPM generates a certain type of conflict between these two spheres of the public sector. This is a conflict that is related, first, to …
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An Investigation of English Learners' Willingness to Communicate in a Linguistically Diverse Setting
… in both English language and content knowledge (MacIntyre, Baker, Clément, & Donovan, 2003; MacIntyre & Charos, 1996; MacIntyre, Dörnyei, Clément, & Noels, 1998; Skehan, 1989). As a major trajectory of the psychology of second language acquisition, the study of WTC seeks to understand an …
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The postmodern debate and the search for emancipation : rationality, the self and politics in the thought of Foucault, Derrida, Rorty and MacIntyre
… Jacques Derrida, Richard Rorty, and Alasdair MacIntyre have been chosen for analysis as their work exhibits the most fundamental tensions within the postmodern stance, tensions which need to be delineated and examined for an appraisal of the future of postmodern political philosophy. Each …
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Racionalidade filosófica, racionalidade científica e os limites da tradição analítica: uma contribuição à teoria das tradições de pesquisa racional de Alasdair MacIntyre
Alasdair MacIntyre’s theory of the traditions of rational enquiry elaborates a metaphilosophical perspective from which one may evaluate the relative merits of rival frameworks of rationality in a way that resembles some canonical approaches in the philosophy of science, but in such a way as to …
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"Civil war by other means": Conflict, resistance and coexistence in Colombia. Exploring the philosophy and politics of Alasdair MacIntyre in a conflict setting
… thesis argues that the philosophy of Alasdair MacIntyre can provide such resources. MacIntyre provides a convincing account of the philosophical problems that underlie ongoing intractable disagreement and the conflicts it breeds, offering a philosophy that can inform and underpin efforts at …
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"Civil war by other means": Conflict, resistance and coexistence in Colombia. Exploring the philosophy and politics of Alasdair MacIntyre in a conflict setting
… thesis argues that the philosophy of Alasdair MacIntyre can provide such resources. MacIntyre provides a convincing account of the philosophical problems that underlie ongoing intractable disagreement and the conflicts it breeds, offering a philosophy that can inform and underpin efforts at …
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Society and Superior Individuals: On the Social Concerns in Nietzschean Virtue Ethics
… critics of Nietzsche’s ethics, Alasdair MacIntyre and Philippa Foot. Chapter one responds to MacIntyre’s claim that Nietzsche’s ethical project is a creation of values ex nihilo, without respect to tradition or community, and is therefore relativistic. I argue that this is not the case, …
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Society and Superior Individuals: On the Social Concerns in Nietzschean Virtue Ethics
… critics of Nietzsche’s ethics, Alasdair MacIntyre and Philippa Foot. Chapter one responds to MacIntyre’s claim that Nietzsche’s ethical project is a creation of values ex nihilo, without respect to tradition or community, and is therefore relativistic. I argue that this is not the case, …
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Towards a 'MacIntyrean Turn' in Sociology: A Case-Study in Syncretic Disciplinary Development
… in contemporary sociology: Alasdair MacIntyre. While a few have asked what MacIntyre might offer sociology, this has been far from a dialogue between MacIntyre and contemporary sociology. This work will catalyze such a process, aiming at the development of a ‘MacIntyrean Sociology.’ …
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Dorybės samprata šiuolaikinės demokratijos teorijoje: alternatyva A.MacIntyre pozicijai /
… Democratic Theory: an Alternative to A. MacIntyre. This paper examines the relationship between the theories of virtue ethics and the theories of contemporary democracy, as an alternative to the theories of Alasdair MacIntyre. The aim is to provide an alternative assessment of the …
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Liberalism and community: Communitarian criticisms of John Rawls' liberal theory of justice
… of John Rawls by Michael Sandel and Alasdair MacIntyre.
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