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Alasdair MacIntyre’s Exposition on Moral Relativism: An Analysis from an Islamic Perspective

AL-ITQAN JOURNAL OF ISLAMIC SCIENCES AND COMPARATIVE STUDIES
Moral relativism has seen a rise in popularity, especially during post-modern times. The heterogeneous nature of society due to various factors drives a compelling case for moral relativism to be studied from its historical context and theistic ...
Muna Sidqy Binti Mohd Sidqy, Amilah Binti Awang Abd Rahman   +1 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Retrieving Your Concepts: Iris Murdoch on Original Sin

European Journal of Philosophy, EarlyView.
Abstract In The Sovereignty of Good, Iris Murdoch argues that our moral thinking will be impoverished until it possesses a secular conception of original sin. Such a notion would need to remove unacceptable Christian baggage while retaining a genuine claim to be a descendant of the original Christian concept.
Samuel Filby
wiley   +1 more source

The Mechanics of Critique

European Journal of Philosophy, EarlyView.
Abstract Immanent critique is often presented as a distinctive approach to political and social philosophy. But Rachel Fraser argues that immanent critique cannot satisfy three plausible criteria that characterise it as a distinctive approach: it cannot be normatively significant, social, and make no appeal to external standards.
Michael O'Connor
wiley   +1 more source

The Nature of Christian Doctrine: A Conversation with My Critics

International Journal of Systematic Theology, EarlyView.
Abstract This article opens with a brief account of the six main themes of The Nature of Christian Doctrine, noting in particular the role of the early church as an ‘epistemic community’ of knowledge production, and the significant and helpful parallels between the modern scientific tool of ‘inference to the best explanation’ and early Christian ...
Alister E. McGrath
wiley   +1 more source

Christian Humanism in the Black Atlantic: The Case of Olaudah Equiano

Modern Theology, EarlyView.
Abstract This article explores Olaudah Equiano as a pivotal figure in the emergence of a Christian humanism forged within the Black Atlantic. Building on the analyses of Sylvia Wynter and Paul Gilroy, it examines how Equiano's The Interesting Narrative contests the racial figuration of the human that underwrote the development of racial capitalism and ...
Luke Bretherton
wiley   +1 more source

Razão prática, ética e educação

Revista Educação e Cultura Contemporânea, 2015
Esse artigo reflete sobre duas teorias de razão prática e da ética/ moral: a de Jürgen Habermas, um universalista e cognitivista forte; a de Alasdair MacIntyre, um contextualista e cognitivista fraco.
Ralph Ings Bannell
doaj   +1 more source

A Public Philosophy for Public Administration in Times of Democratic Crisis

Public Administration Review, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Public administration is at the center of the global democratic crisis. Meeting this challenge requires more than managerial and analytic competence—it requires a public philosophy grounded in the first principles of democratic ethos. We offer such a philosophy, drawing on four seminal thinkers whose concepts reflect the conditions public ...
Curtis Ventriss, Tina Nabatchi
wiley   +1 more source

Isler Soto, Carlos. “Alasdair MacIntyre: relatividad conceptual, tomismo y liberalismo”

Ideas y Valores, 2012
Isler Soto, Carlos."Alasdair MacIntyre: relatividad conceptual, tomismo y liberalismo", Ideas y Valores L/147 (2011): 89-111.
Jorge A. Díaz
doaj  

Una aproximación al narrativismo de Alasdair MacIntyre en “Ethics in the conflicts of modernity: an essay on desire, practical reasoning and narrative”

, 2020
espanolEn el presente trabajo nos proponemos analizar la nueva aproximacion al narrativismo que realiza Alasdair MacIntyre en su ultimo libro: Ethics in the Conflicts of Modernity. An Essay on Desire, Practical Reasoning and Narrative (2016).
María Agustina Juri
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Dead time, hard time, and narrative redemption: Delimiting the life proper

The Southern Journal of Philosophy, EarlyView.
Abstract Is every detail of your life a candidate for the meaningful, valuable, or worthwhile? If not, which do you exclude? Thaddeus Metz nominates “dead time”: the nail‐clipping, line‐waiting, traffic‐jam enduring, generally commonplace moments of our life. Dead time, while prevalent, is not remarkable. Metz recommends that we set at least some of it
Kathy Behrendt
wiley   +1 more source