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Letter from Donald R. MacIntyre to Dr. Hanford M. Burr (May 26, 1917)
No full textA letter from Donald R. MacIntyre writes to Dr. Hanford M. Burr, Springfield College faculty member, in this handwritten letter dated May 26, 1917. He discusses the routine of army life, receiving immunizations, and wonders when they may swap their typewriters out for digging trenches. There are four pages in this letter.Donald R. Macintyre attended Springfield College from 1915-1917. After serving during World War One, he returned and received his degree in 1919. In the fall of 1892, Hanford Burr became a Professor of Christian History and Sociology at the International Y.M.C.A. College (now known as Springfield College). He was also one of the original members of “The Old Guard,” which assisted the college in its focus on the Protestant Evangelical Christian Faith. It was in this context of the centrality of the Christian faith that the Springfield College philosophy that had driven Springfield College since its founding was given the name of “Humanics” by Hanford Burr
Letter from Donald R. MacIntyre to Dr. Hanford M. Burr (May 26, 1917)
No full textA letter from Donald R. MacIntyre writes to Dr. Hanford M. Burr, Springfield College faculty member, in this handwritten letter dated May 26, 1917. He discusses the routine of army life, receiving immunizations, and wonders when they may swap their typewriters out for digging trenches. There are four pages in this letter.Donald R. Macintyre attended Springfield College from 1915-1917. After serving during World War One, he returned and received his degree in 1919. In the fall of 1892, Hanford Burr became a Professor of Christian History and Sociology at the International Y.M.C.A. College (now known as Springfield College). He was also one of the original members of “The Old Guard,” which assisted the college in its focus on the Protestant Evangelical Christian Faith. It was in this context of the centrality of the Christian faith that the Springfield College philosophy that had driven Springfield College since its founding was given the name of “Humanics” by Hanford Burr
Why business cannot be a practice
No full textIn a series of papers Geoff Moore has applied Alasdair MacIntyre’s much cited work to generate a virtue-based business ethics. Central to this pro ject is Moore’s argument that business falls under MacIntyre’s concept of ‘practice’. This move attempts to overcome MacIntyre’s reputation for being ‘anti-business’ while maintaining his framework for evaluating social action and replaces MacIntyre’s hostility to management with a conception of managers as institutional practitioners (craftsmen). I argue however that this move has not been justified. Given the importance MacIntyre places on the protection of practices, the result is that much of Moore’s contribution is misplaced. Business cannot name a practice but business institutions certainly do house practices. The task then is to try to understand the circumstances under which practices might flourish and those under which they might founder in a business context. This is not aided by Moore’s redescription of all businesses as practices
Leader narratives in Scottish banking: an Aristotelian approach
No full textThe banking sector has been under public scrutiny since the credit crisis of 2007/8, and a range of diagnoses and cures have been offered, particularly in terms of regulatory and financial structures. In the public media, much comment has been made about ethics in the sector, but this has provoked surprisingly little response from academic researchers. This thesis explores the crisis in banking as a moral one, taking Alasdair MacIntyre’s account of virtue ethics as a framework for understanding the careers of Scottish banking leaders.
The method used for the study is narrative, and depends both on MacIntyre’s philosophy of tradition-constituted enquiry, and on Hans-Georg Gadamer’s hermeneutics. Conversations were held with ten leaders of Scottish banking whose careers typically span between 25 and 40 years, and the record of those conversations forms the primary data set for the research.
The resulting narratives are frank, rich descriptions of deeply felt changes in a particular mode of working life. This was a way of life characterised up until the 1980s by a well-defined status within local communities, professional expertise and a well-ordered tradition. The deregulation of banking and subsequent structural and technological changes to retail banking services eroded that professional tradition, and replaced it with new modes of work dominated by institutional priorities of sales, profit and growth, rather than by an ethic of professional expertise and customer service.
The thesis finds that there are structural barriers to the recovery of a professional ethic in banking. It offers new perspectives on the work of Alasdair MacIntyre, particularly in the application of his idea of traditions to mainstream economic activity. It also explores common ground between Gadamer and MacIntyre, proposing ways in which both philosophers can enhance our pursuit of qualitative empirical research
Service design and delivery
No full textService Design and Delivery provides a comprehensive overview of the increasingly important role played by the service industry. Focusing on the development of different processes employed by service organizations, the book emphasizes management of service in relation to products. It not only explores the complexity of this relationship, but also introduces strategies used in the design and management of service across various sectors, highlighting where tools, techniques and processes applicable to one sector may prove useful in another. The implementation methods introduced in the book also illustrate how and why companies can transform themselves into service organizations. While the book is primarily intended as a text for advanced-level courses in service design and delivery, it also contains theoretical and practical knowledge beneficial to both practitioners in the service sector and those in manufacturing contemplating moving towards service delivery.26 contributing author
Essentials of business law / Ewan MacIntyre.
No full textIncludes bibliographical references and index.xxxiii, 464 pages.
Introduction: the unknown Alasdair MacIntyre and a note on the selection and annotation
No full textAlthough Alasdair MacIntyre is best known today as the author of After Virtue (1981), he was, in the 1950s and 1960s, one of the most erudite members of Britain's Marxist Left. This introduction discusses the unknown Alasdair MacIntyre
Mrs. Gordon, Mrs. Cull, Mrs. Falconer, Mrs. Evans and Mrs. MacIntyre
No full textPhotograph - Five women (Mrs. Gordon, Mrs. Cull, Mrs. Falconer, Mrs. Evans and Mrs. MacIntyre) sitting on the porch of a house, Athabasca, Albert
Alasdair MacIntyre: introducción narrativa a su obra
No full textA raíz de la publicación del último libro del filósofo británico Alasdair MacIntyre, Ethics in the Conflicts of Modernity: An Essay on Desire, Practical Reasoning, and Narrative, este trabajo propone una manera de comprender su producción bibliográfica en el contexto de la narrativa de su trayectoria vital e intelectual. Se elabora una periodización del itinerario de MacIntyre, basada en las referencias que el propio autor ha hecho sobre su vida académica y en las propuestas de varios estudiosos de su pensamiento. Se concluye que el examen narrativo de la obra de Alasdair MacIntyre revela que su proyecto filosófico está marcado básicamente por Aristóteles y Tomás de Aquino, cuyo pensamiento ayudó a nuestro autor a articular una propuesta sólida sobre las principales cuestiones de filosofía moral y la filosofía de la religión, y a elaborar un nuevo marco de interpretación y conocimiento sapiencial de la realidad, también en su aspecto científico. Este trabajo se concibe como introductorio porque se centra solamente en los libros de MacIntyre, pero se espera que sirva como base sólida para realizar un estudio crítico minucioso — sobre todo, desde una perspectiva cronológica— de la práctica totalidad de su obra, que incluye también capítulos de libros, artículos académicos, entrevistas, entre otros.In the wake of the publication of the last book of the British philosopher Alasdair MacIntyre, Ethics in the Conflicts of Modernity: An Essay on Desire, Practical Reasoning, and Narrative, this work proposes a way to understand his bibliographical production in the context of the narrative of his life and his intellectual career. It is elaborated a periodization of the itinerary of MacIntyre, based on the references that the author himself has made of his academic life and in the proposals of several scholars of his thought. It is concluded that the narrative examination of MacIntyre’s work reveals that his philosophical project is basically marked by Aristotle and Aquinas, whose thought helped our author to articulate a solid proposal on the main issues of moral philosophy and philosophy of religion, and to elaborate a new framework of interpretation and sapiential knowledge of reality, including its scientific dimension. This work is conceived as introductory because it focuses only on MacIntyre’s books, but it’s expected to serve as a solid basis for a thorough critical study —especially from a chronological perspective— of his entire work, which includes chapters of books, papers, interviews, among others
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