Justice after Virtue

From "After MacIntyre: Critical Perspectives on the Work of Alasdair MacIntyre", edited by John Horton, Susan

1,193 129 2MB

English Pages [32]

Polecaj historie

Law, Virtue and Justice 9781472566294, 9781849461757

This book explores the relevance of virtue theory to law from a variety of perspectives. The concept of virtue is centra

247 48 2MB Read more

After Virtue [3 ed.] 9780268086923

395 32 2MB Read more

Fighting for Virtue: Justice and Politics in Thailand 9781501709586

In the end, posits McCargo, under a new king, who appears far less reluctant to assert his own power and authority, the

178 34 5MB Read more

Towards Justice and Virtue - Constructive Account of Practical Reasoning

Towards Justice and Virtue challenges the rivalry between those who advocate only abstract, universal principles of just

114 108 49MB Read more

Towards Justice and Virtue - Constructive Account of Practical Reasoning

Towards Justice and Virtue challenges the rivalry between those who advocate only abstract, universal principles of just

540 154 12MB Read more

Justice and Reconciliation: After the Violence 9781685850197

Explores how societies that have been wracked by violent conflict reconcile themselves to their recent history and lay t

172 17 2MB Read more

After the Act: Access to Family Justice after LASPO 9781509920198, 9781509920228, 9781509920211

After the Act describes the aftermath of the recent removal under LASPO of public funding from legal services in family

194 42 6MB Read more

Political Justice in Budapest after World War II 9789633860533

In Hungary, which fell under Soviet influence at the end of WWII, those who had participated in the wartime atrocities w

160 40 12MB Read more

Political Responsibility Refocused: Thinking Justice after Iris Marion Young 9781442665767

Political Responsibility Refocused explores the theoretical foundations and practical implications of individual and col

177 78 650KB Read more

Inside Rwanda's Gacaca Courts: Seeking Justice after Genocide 9780299309749, 9780299309732

After the 1994 genocide in Rwanda, victims, perpetrators, and the country as a whole struggled to deal with the legacy o

135 32 1MB Read more

Justice after Virtue

Author / Uploaded
Charles Taylor
Alasdair MacIntyre

Citation preview

After MacIntyre: Critical Perspectives on the Work of Alasdair MacIntyre, Edited by John Horton, Susan Mendus, 1995

Justice After Virtue __________________ Charles Taylor

In this paper I shall try to come to grips with the extraordinarily rich analysis of the modern predicament in Alasdair Maclntyre's After Vir tue! I will not even begin to do justice to the very great number of insights and telling detail with which the book abounds. What I want to do rather is to clear my own mind as to .what its central theses are, and at the same time clarify my own position relative to them. In fact, this will not really be a two-stage operation, as I have made it sound. Rather, I will be throughout trying to reconstruct what I see to be the central insights of the book in my own terms, and therein also from time to time offering amendments. In doing this I shall come around to the issue of the nature and scope of theories of justice. MacIntyre himself, of course, takes a stand on it in, his chapter 17.

I A good place to start is with the thesis expounded in chapter 5 of After Virtue. Following Elizabeth Anscombe's path-breaking artide,2 MacIntyre shows how the growing sense among many different schools of modern philosophy that no 'ought' can be derived from an