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Whose justice? Which rationality? / Alasdair MacIntyre.
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London :: Duckworth,
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1988.
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xi, 410 pages ; 24 cm
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Includes index.
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Monograph
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071562198X 9780715621981 0715621998 9780715621998 0268019444 9780268019440;
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Rival justices, competing rationalities -- Justice and action in the Homeric imagination -- The division of the post-Homeric inheritance -- Athens put to the question -- Plato and rational enquiry -- Aristotle as Plato's heir -- Aristotle on justice
-- Aristotle on practical rationality -- The Augustinian alternative -- Overcoming a conflict of traditions -- Aquinas on practical rationality and justice -- The Augustinian and Aristotelian background to Scottish Enlightenment -- Philosophy in the Scottish social order -- Hutcheson on justice and practical rationality -- Hume's anglicizing subversion -- Hume on practical rationality and justice -- Liberalism transformed into a tradition -- The rationality of traditions -- Tradition and translation -- Contested justices, contested rationalities.
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