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A. D. MacIntyre Documents
No full textLetters and documents, dated 1816 - 1923, received from Mr. A.D. MacIntyre, West Bay Road, Cape Breton. Two documents (#4 and #18) were too large for the scanner and were not included here
MacIntyre, Practical Reason, and Law: Some Remarks
No full textThis contribution aims to highlight some of the aspects of MacIntyre’s approach concerning law and the political-institutional dimension. Taking into account the global theoretical framework elaborated by MacIntyre, law and politics should be regarded as levels or forms of the practical reason. More precisely, law and politics ar thought as belonging to the 'practical reason'. Starting from this conceptual horizon, this paper focuses on the following theoretical points: the MacIntyrean concept of law; his model of politics; and lastly on some aspects concerning the theoretical landscape in which he operates, with special focus on the ideas of 'tradition' and 'practical reason'
Peter D. MacIntyre’s 35-Year Research Contribution to Psychology, Language Education and Communication: A Systematic Review
No full textPeter MacIntyre’s 35-years of research in SLA, psychology of language learning, and communication was systematically reviewed in six sections driven by subjective guidelines developed for the purposes of the present survey. To operationalize the objectives of the sections, an impressionistic methodology was created for analysis, according to which exclusion and inclusion rules were coined. Then, a fairly representative sample of six main thematic areas were extracted; the main themes were SLA, willingness to communicate, psychology of language learning, motivation theory, the idiodynamic method, and other relevant topics, all of which were portrayed in the light of the dominance and frequency of investigation. Next, we tabulated from our online search, a total number of his overall achievements which stood approximately at 250 research works. After that, we systematically reviewed his research works including articles, book chapters and books. Finally, Peter MacIntyre provided a discussion and his personal reflections on the systematic review
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
Edward Legare MacIntyre.
No full textMacIntyre, of Pike County, Alabama, served in the Alabama Senate around the time of the Civil War. During the war, he was a captain and judge advocate in Company D, Hilliard's Legion, C.S.A. Daguerreotype is 2.75 x 3.25 inches. Front cover of case is missing, and much of the design on the back cover is obscured by a label. From the MacIntyre-Cozart family photographs, LPP37
MacIntyre and Business Ethics
No full textEntry on MacIntyre and Business Ethics (2023). In Poff, D. C. & Michalos, A. C. (Eds.) Encyclopedia of Business and Professional Ethics. Springer
MacIntyre and Business Ethics
No full textEntry on MacIntyre and Business Ethics (2023). In Poff, D. C. & Michalos, A. C. (Eds.) Encyclopedia of Business and Professional Ethics. Springer
MacIntyre's Anthropological Vulnerability between E.F. Kittay and Kenny's Aquinas
No full textL'uso della storia della filosofia da parte di MacIntyre è controverso. Tuttavia, esso è rilevante non solo per apprezzare l'intuizione storiografica della produzione di MacIntyre, ma per comprendere correttamente il suo pensiero. Per questo motivo, propongo di studiare le nozioni di dipendenza e vulnerabilità che MacIntyre considera essenziali in Dependent Rational Animals. Nella prima fase, discuto come MacIntyre attribuisce queste nozioni a Tommaso, riferendosi all'"Aquinas of Mind" di Kenny e al ruolo del linguaggio. Quindi, esaminerò l'antropologia filosofica di Eva Feder Kittay. MacIntyre cita questa filosofa solo due volte, riconoscendo di avere un debito nei suoi confronti. Cercando in cosa risieda questo debito, propongo di considerare "Love's Labor: Essays on Women, Equality and Dependency" di Kittay la fonte autentica della nozione di dipendenza di MacIntyre e dei suoi numerosi riferimenti alle persone disabili. In conclusione, sostengo che l'antropologia filosofica di MacIntyre esposta in "Dependent Rational Animals" è uno sviluppo originale della posizione di Kittay basata sulla nozione di virtù, ma che non è una vera interpretazione della proposta di Tommaso; piuttosto, entrambe sono contrapposte alle antropologie individualistiche.The use of history of philosophy made by MacIntyre is disputed. Nonetheless, this is relevant not only to appreciate the historiographical insight of Macintyre's production, but to understand correctly his thought. For this reason, I propose to study in depth the notions of dependence and vulnerability that MacIntyre consider essential in Dependent Rational Animals. In the first stage, I discuss how MacIntyre ascribes these notions to Aquinas, giving a thoughtful attention to his appreciation of Kenny's Aquinas of Mind and the related role of language. Then, I will look attentively at Eva Feder Kittay's anthropological statement. MacIntyre quotes this philosopher only twice, but acknowledging to have a debt towards her. Searching in what this debt lies, I propose to regard Kittay's Love's Labor: Essays on Women, Equality and Dependency the genuine source of MacIntyre's notion of dependency and of his numerous references to disabled persons. In conclusion, I sustain that MacIntyre's philosophical anthropology exhibited in Dependent Rational Animals is an original development of Kittay's position based on the notion of virtues, but that it is not a genuine interpretation of Aquinas's proposal; rather, both are contrapposed to the individualistic anthropologies
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
Is Moral Scepticism Inevitable? An Enquiry on Desires, Goods and Moral Diversity in Dialogue with C. Taylor and A. MacIntyre.
No full textWithin contemporary plural societies it is very common to experience
of moral diversity on various issues. Does this phenomenological account
necessarily lead to accept moral subjectivism and skepticism as inevitable
conclusions? If we tackle the issue from a foundationalist standpoint, it seems
hard to find a common ground for dialogue. Moreover, the multiplication
of desires and their claim to offer a normative criterion for human action
might lead us to abandon the possibility of a common moral enterprise, and
to delegate the solution of dilemmas to a system of norms or moral rules.
While engaging in a critical dialogue with C. Taylor and M. MacIntyre, I
will argue that we need to follow the path of practical reason in order to
avoid skepticism, starting from common fundamental dispositions toward
‘good’ and ‘right’. Moreover, we do not need to overcome desires, as their
dynamic leads us beyond the limits of moralism to discover a constellation. of meanings crucial for human life. Lastly, I will argue that the possibility
of tackling moral disagreement without surrender to scepticism depends on
a dialogue developed within a network of narratives interacting with each
other through which practical reason can detect the incarnation of those
goods worthy of our love and allegiance. Therefore, moral disagreement
might be addressed, rather than from a dialectical perspective (responsible,
in turn, of generating further oppositions), from a dialogical one, in which
the ‘exchange of reasons’ (dià-logos) embodies the work of the practical
reason within a narrative context
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