 | Arif Dirlik, Vinay Bahl, Peter Gran - 2000 - 534 pàgines
...universality freed from all particularity" is illusory. We can only possess the virtues when we do so "as part of a tradition in which we inherit them and our understanding of them from a series of predecessors."29 The virtues act, then, to sustain the goods of practices, individual lives, and traditions.... | |
 | Gary Schwartz - 1987 - 332 pàgines
...aspirations of the morality of modernity to a universality freed from all particularity is an illusion; and secondly that there is no way to possess the virtues...understanding of them from a series of predecessors in which series heroic societies hold first place. This enriched concept of authority will show why... | |
 | Ian Shapiro - 2023 - 356 pàgines
...self-consciously be, a matter of critical engagement with our inherited traditions. So, for Maclntyre, there is no way to possess the virtues "except as part of a tradition in which we inherit them" (ibid.: 126-27). It is this tradition that is Aristotelian and that "is not to be confused with that... | |
 | James Ian Hamilton McDonald - 1998 - 260 pàgines
...universality freed from all particularity is an illusion'. His further conclusion is also important: 'there is no way to possess the virtues except as...understanding of them from a series of predecessors in which series heroic societies hold first place.' (Maclntyre 1985: 126-7). First place - but by no... | |
 | Gerald L. Bruns - 1999 - 315 pàgines
...aspirations of the morality of modernity to a universality freed from all particularity is an illusion,- and secondly that there is no way to possess the virtues...understanding of them from a series of predecessors in which series heroic societies hold first place" (AV1 19). As it turns out, this is quite a statement,... | |
 | Gerald L. Bruns - 1999 - 315 pàgines
...aspirations of the morality of modernity to a universality freed from all particularity is an illusion,- and secondly that there is no way to possess the virtues...understanding of them from a series of predecessors in which series heroic societies hold first place" (AVl 19). As it turns out, this is quite a statement,... | |
 | Göran Möller - 1998 - 172 pàgines
...Ethics after Babel (James Clarke & Co., Cambridge 1990), p.41. 33 Thus Alasdair MacIntyre points out: "...there is no way to possess the virtues except...understanding of them from a series of predecessors..." MacIntyre, op. cit. p. 127. 14 Or as MacIntyre has expressed it: "Virtues are dispositions not only... | |
 | 288 pàgines
...Americans, Maclntyre commented, could escape the formative influences of the past. There was accordingly "no way to possess the virtues except as part of a...understanding of them from a series of predecessors." In seeming paradox he offered the proposition that "reason can only move towards being genuinely universal... | |
 | James Delaney - 2006 - 171 pàgines
...aspirations of morality of modernity to a universality freed from all particularity is an illusion; and secondly that there is no way to possess the virtues...understanding of them from a series of predecessors in which series heroic societies hold first place.41 While these Homeric societies may never have in... | |
 | Thomas D. D'Andrea - 2006 - 516 pàgines
...morality of modernity to a universality freed from all particularity is an illusion; and secondly . . . there is no way to possess the virtues except as part...inherit them and our understanding of them from a series or predecessors in which series heroic societies hold first place. (126-7). There is something curious... | |
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... there is no way to possess the virtues except as part of a tradition in which we inherit them and our understanding of them from a series of predecessors in which series heroic societies hold first place 